Gangrene in a sentence as a noun

And like the silk stocking of a burlesque half-nude queen it climbs up his thigh: gangrene.

Austerity is a 'program' like 'amputation' is a treatment for gangrene.

Antibiotics and better hygiene early on might have saved your limb, but once you've got gangrene the choices become much more limited.

Instead, the risk is if two balls attract each other through layers of your intestine, eventually causing gangrene and sepsis.

Agree that will save money, not sure about healthier; though if gangrene necessitates limb removal, then possible best choice there.

Gangrene in a sentence as a verb

I guess the middle managers were either afraid to pass the bad news up the chain, or more likely, they were totally clueless about the ongoing code gangrene.

An open wound was almost certainly a recipe for gangrene prior to antiseptics and antibiotics.

In the story, the main character is a TV producer who got a very promising prospect - an old man suffering from gangrene and a family, too broke to take care of the hospital bill.

Due to that air pocket it would also easily tumble upon entry into the body thus creating disproportionally massive damage to the surrounding tissues which resulted in very hard to treat and easily gangrene developing wounds and thus it was called the "poison" bullet.

New to this edition is an index of important terms such as catheter, pain, blackout, pathological deltoid obsession, escort service, magnetic resonance imaging, loss of friends due to superstitious fear, and, of course, amputation above the knee due to pernicious gangrene.

Gangrene definitions

noun

necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass

See also: sphacelus slough

noun

the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply)

See also: necrosis mortification sphacelus

verb

undergo necrosis; "the tissue around the wound necrosed"

See also: necrose mortify sphacelate