Gangrenes [noun]
Definition of Gangrenes:
decay
Synonyms of Gangrenes:
● Decrease
● Fading
● Decline
● Rot
● Ruin
● Downfall
● Blight
● Atrophy
● Spoilage
● Dying
● Rotting
● Failing
● Rust
● Caries
● Wasting
Sentence/Example of Gangrenes:
It, or a similar bacillus, is sometimes found in the sputum of gangrene of the lung.
He thought about things like lock-jaw and gangrene and his hand trembled as he tied his pocket-handkerchief around the wound.
Only the new antibiotics he had taken along, had kept the gangrene from killing him.
His first treatise—on gangrene and sphacelus—quickly made him known, and went through eleven editions.
It was as likely as not a charge of buck-shot low down in the body, leaving the rest to hemorrhage or gangrene.
Even simple scratches are often fatal in these over-fat animals, from inducing gangrene.
The gangrenous variety begins with coldness and weakness of the extremities followed by gangrene and sloughing.
Sometimes gangrene or mortification ensues, and sometimes the inflammation partly subsides and becomes chronic.
It was evident that unless the tension could be removed, gangrene must soon ensue.
A short time before leaving for China, it became my duty daily to dress the foot of a patient suffering from senile gangrene.