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

There’s the round-the-clock monitoring of sugar levels; the constant, life-sustaining insulin injections; and the potential threats from diabetes’ diabolical complications: heart disease, blindness, kidney damage and the possibility of losing a gangrenous limb to amputation.

From New York Times • Aug. 9, 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

The presenting diagnosis is diffuse gangrenous inflammation and infiltration of connective tissue of the entire lower right extremity, extending from the instep upward to the buttock.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

He was brought here from Gettysburg with serious wounds which became gangrenous before his arrival.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt