gangrene

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

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

The medics were worried: "Do Merve's feet have gangrene? Or is this the first symptom of hypothermia?"

From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2023

They call it "sepsis," and they know from bitter experience how quickly a "septic" wound can go from slight redness to gross swelling to a fatal condition called gangrene.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

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

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

Crutches, and itches, and leprosies, and ulcers, and gangrenes, and running sores, praise ye the Lord, for to-night ye have saved our Archbishop! 1ST BEGGAR.

From Becket and other plays by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson

The swellings of the tonsils are sensible to the eye and touch externally, and have an elastic rather than an œdematous feel, like parts in the vicinity of gangrenes.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin

Simple ulcerations and small gangrenes, as well as the troublesome excoriation, when not in the last stage, yielded promptly to this remedy; the good effect being generally visible from the first application.

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

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

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

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

Its leather was dry-rotted with age and the brass C. S. A. on the outer flap was gangrened and sunken in; the flap curled up stiffly, like an old shoe sole.

From The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

The roadside beggar's exhibition of his sores and gangrened mutilations is something more than a device to extort alms from the passer-by.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch

The ulcer that ravaged Sylla, gangrened a throne, and decomposed a world.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus

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

From To-morrow? by Victoria Cross