gangrene

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To really investigate gangrene, he would need to go where infection was far more plentiful; not the battlefield, but the hospital.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

Nursing employees told the investigators that the 69-year-old man, who had been admitted with gangrene on his feet, was often confused and sometimes tried to pull out his tubes.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2025

Her lower legs were amputated after she developed gangrene at age 7.

From Seattle Times • May 15, 2024

The medics were worried: "Do Merve's feet have gangrene? Or is this the first symptom of hypothermia?"

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2023

Everywhere, a soup of smells—the sticky sour odor of fresh blood, and also filthy clothes, sweat, oil, disinfectant, medical alcohol, and drifting above it all, the stink of gangrene.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan