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

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

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

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

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

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

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

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

In the situation in which it now is, gangrened by corruption, and without power to remedy it, the Convention can no longer save the Republic: both will perish together.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14 by Various

There frequently occurs, just a Moment before he expires, an abundant Discharge of excessively fœtid Matter by Stool; and during this Evacuation he dies with his Intestines quite gangrened, or mortified.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot

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 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

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

From To-morrow? by Victoria Cross