gangrenous

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The designation is intended to attract more research and funding for curbing the disease, also known as cancrum oris and gangrenous stomatitis.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 20, 2023

In a recently published manifesto, “Against Pickleball,” they called for tennis players to “oppose the gangrenous spread of pickleball at every turn.”

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2022

When we joined the volunteers for a day, she was quick to check the lower leg of an evacuee with a blackened, gangrenous wound.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2022

Cause of death was gangrenous infection and sepsis.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

I never walked past their cot because one of them had a gangrenous foot that she would thrust in the face of anyone who came near.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom