gangrene

He was taken to hospital where a surgeon told his parents Prince Charles and Princess Diana had just had baby boy - before breaking the news that Mark had gangrene in his leg.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

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

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

But there come gangrenes in the heart, or perhaps in the pocket.

From Dr. Wortle's School by Anthony Trollope

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

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

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

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

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

But Theodoric of Verona, who was also sore wounded, was left under the care of an ignorant and idle nurse, and his wounds were not tended, and were like to become gangrened.

From Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation by Thomas Hodgkin

It has an aspect like gangrened or scabrous flesh.

From Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo

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