gangrene
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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
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
Fabricius takes the occasion to give a caution to young surgeons, to avoid being too sanguine in predicting recovery from gangrenes.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Franklin Bache
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
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
But there come gangrenes in the heart, or perhaps in the pocket.
From Dr. Wortle's School by Anthony Trollope
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
In the beginning of that month the daily deaths were five hundred, the living were not able to bury the dead, and a pest soon bred; the atmosphere was such that the slightest wound gangrened.
From Heroic Spain by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly
If you'd seen her and lived with her as I have, year out and year in, you'd know her love of money has eat into her soul and gangrened it.
From Flamsted quarries by G. Patrick Nelson
The Frenchman, struggling with the English language, told a lady he was gangrened, he meant he was mortified.
From Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula by Nathaniel Bright Emerson
It drags upon me like a prisoner's gangrening fetter, and I'm getting tired of it.
From To-morrow? by Victoria Cross
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