hospital gangrene
noun
Pathology. a contagious, often fatal gangrene, especially involving amputation stumps and war wounds, occurring usually in crowded, ill-kept hospitals, and caused by putrefactive bacteria.
Origin of hospital gangrene
1First recorded in 1805–15
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How to use hospital gangrene in a sentence
Such terrible scourges as pyaemia and hospital gangrene were rife in all of them.
Victorian Worthies | George Henry BloreScurvy, diarrhea, dysentery, and hospital gangrene were the prevailing diseases.
Andersonville, Volume 3 | John McElroyAfter my third week, an epidemic of hospital gangrene broke out in my ward.
Scurvy and hospital gangrene frequently existed in the same individual.
Andersonville, Volume 3 | John McElroyIn such cases, vegetable diet, with vegetable acids, would remove the scorbutic condition without curing the hospital gangrene.
Andersonville, Volume 3 | John McElroy
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