gangrene
Example Sentences
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Some prisoners died of gangrene from mutilations and amputations, others of starvation and suffocation.
From New York Times
Then there’s Roxana, an undocumented woman with no coverage who receives emergency surgery on a life-threatening tumor only to wake up with dry gangrene, leaving her arms and legs decayed and useless.
From Washington Post
It is attached to a head and shoulders defined by orange and black ink that resembles a silken swath of tie-dye but also gangrene.
From New York Times
The medics were worried: "Do Merve's feet have gangrene? Or is this the first symptom of hypothermia?"
From BBC
The other significant condition that contributed to his death was "peripheral arteriosclerosis with gangrene of the feet."
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
