gangrene
Example Sentences
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He learned to patch up injured men in below-deck sea cabins, where gangrene turned a wound black and rotten.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026
On 28 June, the family were told Mr Trotter had a condition called Fournier's gangrene and nothing more could be done.
From BBC • Jan. 20, 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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
