dry gangrene

American  

noun

1. death of tissue owing to arterial obstruction without subsequent bacterial decomposition and putrefaction.

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Etymology

Origin of dry gangrene

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

Then there’s Roxana, an undocumented woman with no coverage who receives emergency surgery on a life-threatening tumor only to wake up with dry gangrene, leaving her arms and legs decayed and useless.

From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2023

When gangrene occurs, it is treated on the same lines as other forms of dry gangrene, but if amputation is called for it is only with a view to removing the dead part.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis

I have seen dry gangrene in the human subject originate apparently from an old "frost bite;" which means merely chronic debility of the capillaries of the foot or shin.

From Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various

When diseased rye of this kind is eaten in food for some time, it sometimes causes death by a kind of mortification called dry gangrene.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various

All the physical appearances and clinical symptoms associated with dry gangrene supervene, and the dead portion is delimited by a line of demarcation.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis