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gangrene
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gangrene \Gan"grene\, n. [F. gangr[`e]ne, L. gangraena, fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to gnaw, eat; cf. Skr. gras, gar, to devour, and E. voracious, also canker, n., in sense 3.] (Med.) A term formerly restricted to mortification of the soft tissues which has not advanced so far as to produce complete loss of vitality; but now applied to mortification of the soft parts in any stage.
Gangrene \Gan"grene\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Gangrened; p. pr. & vb. n. Gangrening.] [Cf. F. gangr['e]ner.] To produce gangrene in; to be affected with gangrene.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"putrefaction or necrosis of soft tissues," 1540s, cancrena, from Latin gangraena (Medieval Latin cancrena), from medical Greek gangraina "an eating or gnawing sore," literally "that which eats away," dissimilated reduplicated form of gran- "to gnaw," from PIE root *gras- "to devour" (see gastric).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The necrosis or rot of flesh, usually caused by lack of blood supply. 2 (context figuratively English) A damaging or corrupting influence. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To produce gangrene in. 2 (context intransitive English) To be affected with gangrene.
WordNet
n. necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass [syn: sphacelus, slough]
the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply) [syn: necrosis, mortification, sphacelus]
v. undergo necrosis; "the tissue around the wound necrosed" [syn: necrose, mortify, sphacelate]
Wikipedia
Gangrene (or gangrenous necrosis) is a type of necrosis caused by a critically insufficient blood supply. This potentially life-threatening condition may occur after an injury or infection, or in people suffering from any chronic health problem affecting blood circulation. The primary cause of gangrene is reduced blood supply to the affected tissues, which results in cell death. Diabetes and long-term smoking increase the risk of suffering from gangrene.
Gangrene is a non-communicable disease. It does not spread from person to person. There are different types of gangrene with different symptoms, such as dry gangrene, wet gangrene, gas gangrene, internal gangrene and necrotizing fasciitis. Treatment depends on the underlying cause, and can include resection, debridement (or, in severe cases, amputation) of the affected body parts, antibiotics, revascularization (via a vascular bypass or angioplasty), or hyperbaric oxygen therapy. It can rarely include medical therapy to stop vascular spasm or the production of cold-induced vascular obstruction by cold-precipitated cryoglobulins.
'Gangrene ' is the third album by Mirrorthrone. The song, "So Frail", is featured in the video game, Brütal Legend.
Gangrene is an American hip hop duo and record production duo, which consists of rapper/ producers The Alchemist and Oh No. The Alchemist and Oh No, MCs and producers in their own right, weren't acquainted until they met at a show headlined by Dilated Peoples member and mutual friend, Evidence. The Alchemist contacted Oh No and proposed a collaborative project. From that point they "just clicked," says Oh No. "I sent him a verse and a beat, and he sent a beat and a verse." The creative sparring continued, and they began to refer to the work as Gangrene.
In 2013, Gangrene, Tangerine Dream and Woody Jackson scored the original score for Grand Theft Auto V by Rockstar Games.
Usage examples of "gangrene".
My letter was read at Court, and people wondered how a man with gangrene could write a long letter of four pages.
I stared pop-eyed at a leveled finger that resembled a gangrened sausage.
That damned cloud decided to move away from the moon, and we were pinned in bright yellow beams, and the snores stopped suddenly, and a grotesque figure sat up in bed and leveled a gangrened finger.
Aztec medicine to be a diuretic and as useful in gangrene treatment, has been found to contain plumbagin, an anti-bacterial agent, effective against staphylococcus.
The fact already stated, that a form of moist gangrene, resembling hospital gangrene, was quite common in this foul atmosphere, in cases of dysentery, both with and without the existence of the disease upon the entire surface, not only demonstrates the dependence of the disease upon the state of the constitution, but proves in the clearest manner that neither the contact of the poisonous matter of gangrene, nor the direct action of the poisonous atmosphere upon the ulcerated surfaces is necessary to the development of the disease.
From the crowded condition, filthy habits, bad diet, and dejected, depressed condition of the prisoners, their systems had become so disordered that the smallest abrasion of the skin, from the rubbing of a shoe, or from the effects of the sun, or from the prick of a splinter, or from scratching, or a musketo bite, in some cases, took on rapid and frightful ulceration and gangrene.
If the leper is in hiding, he cannot be operated upon, the necrosis will continue to eat its way up the bone of the leg, and in a brief and horrible time that leper will die of gangrene or some other terrible complication.
If only a person is willing to risk polio from the pool, gangrene from the footbath, ptomaine from the hot dogs, and elephantiasis from the soap and the towels, he might possibly get laid.
Boyer cites a case of edema of the prepuce, noticed on the fifteenth day of the fever, and which was followed by gangrene of the penis.
Haematoma and dry gangrene of the ears in animals born of parents in which these ear-alterations had been caused by an injury to the restiform body near the nib of the calamus.
If all the bacteria I have spotted in the last half-hour or so were permitted to reproduce unchecked, Norman would be down with typhoid, two or three kinds of gangrene, some form of encephalitis, and half-a-dozen types of strep infection.
He recovered possession of himself before the tourniquet was finished and loosened it immediately to lessen the danger of gangrene.
In cases of hospital gangrene of the extremities, and in cases of gangrene of the intestines, heart clots and fibrous coagula were universally present.
In cases of hospital gangrene of the extremities, and in cases of gangrene of the intestines, heart-clots and firm coagula were universally present.
Of heavy chains has gangrened his sweet limbs, And I have never yet despaired--but now!