gangrene

He has consulted fellow Spaniard Santi Cazorla, who was sidelined for 636 days after gangrene ravaged his Achilles tendon, and takes inspiration from the former Arsenal midfielder's comeback.

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2026

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

By World War II, even as scientists were manufacturing gallons of phages to combat cholera, dysentery, and gangrene in Stalingrad and Leningrad, much the West had given up on phages.

From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2024

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

For fungous flesh, it promotes discharge, and destroys both gangrenes and carbuncles.

From The Leper in England: with some account of English lazar-houses by Robert Charles Hope

But there come gangrenes in the heart, or perhaps in the pocket.

From Dr. Wortle's School by Anthony Trollope

Rochefoucault, who has torn the veil from so many foul gangrenes of the human heart, says, we find something not altogether unpleasant to us in the misfortunes of our best friends.

From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Sir Walter Scott

The 'mind,' somehow, causes gangrenes, if not cancers, paralysis, shrinking of tissues; the mind, somehow, cures them.

From The Making of Religion by Andrew Lang

Oftener than not it gangrenes, and there is loss of sound tissue and the setting-up of strange and malevolent growth.

From The Quickening by E. M. Ashe

One man came limping in, unassisted, on a gangrened leg teeming with worms.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

The omentum, to appearance gangrened, was dark, and altered in texture.

From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Franklin Bache

Agathocles, the tyrant of Syracuse, was given by the treacherous Maenon a poisoned toothpick which soon rendered his mouth incurably gangrened, and deprived him of the power of speech.

From The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) by Frederic Rowland Marvin

Unskilful army medical handling had left it gangrened, and it had swollen.

From Golden Lads by Arthur Gleason

It has an aspect like gangrened or scabrous flesh.

From Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo

It drags upon me like a prisoner's gangrening fetter, and I'm getting tired of it.

From To-morrow? by Victoria Cross