gangrene

[ gang-green, gang-green ]

as inputrefaction
as inputrescence
as inputridness
as inspoilage
as indecay

Antonyms for gangrene

Word Origin & History

1540s, from Latin gangraena, from Greek gangraina "an eating or gnawing sore," literally "that which eats away," reduplicated form of gran- "to gnaw," from PIE root *gras- (see gastric).

Example Sentences forgangrene

This bed was empty, because gangrene had set in, and the patient had died but yesterday.

He thought there had been gangrene and that it was going to fall off.

Of course, if gangrene occurs, the man is permanently invalided.

If gangrene has set in and no doctor is available, then treat as a burn.

Gangrene was in all the wards, the filth and foulness of the atmosphere were fearful.

Only the new antibiotics he had taken along, had kept the gangrene from killing him.

If a limb is rotting with gangrene, shall it not be cut away?

He died of a gangrene, occasioned by his fall from the pier of Calais.

Scurvy and gangrene frequently existed in the same individual.

We have Erysipelas, fever and gangrene, and the Russian wounded are the worst.

gangrene

More words related to gangrene

decay

putrefaction

putrescence

putridness

spoilage