gangrene
noun
necrosis or death of soft tissue due to obstructed circulation, usually followed by decomposition and putrefaction.
gangrenes
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pluralof gangrene.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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present tense formof gangrene (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
gangrenenounnecrosis or death of soft tissue due to obstructed circulation, usually followed by decomposition and putrefaction.
Example Sentences
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The 'mind,' somehow, causes gangrenes, if not cancers, paralysis, shrinking of tissues; the mind, somehow, cures them.
From The Making of Religion by Andrew Lang
For fungous flesh, it promotes discharge, and destroys both gangrenes and carbuncles.
From The Leper in England: with some account of English lazar-houses by Robert Charles Hope
Rochefoucault, who has torn the veil from so many foul gangrenes of the human heart, says, we find something not altogether unpleasant to us in the misfortunes of our best friends.
From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Sir Walter Scott
The swellings of the tonsils are sensible to the eye and touch externally, and have an elastic rather than an œdematous feel, like parts in the vicinity of gangrenes.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
Oftener than not it gangrenes, and there is loss of sound tissue and the setting-up of strange and malevolent growth.
From The Quickening by E. M. Ashe
