Dr. Rabinowitch examined him and his foot was black with gangrene from the ankle down. From Wordnik.com. [To the Top of the World With the Eastern Arctic Patrol] Reference
The gangrene is very high up in my leg and the open thigh wound wasn't getting better. From Wordnik.com. [THE LAST FLIGHT] Reference
Nobody will starve, get dysentery, get gangrene from a minor wound, or die of battle exhaustion. From Wordnik.com. [Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » If Arthurian legend had fan-fiction…] Reference
I agree with you that I don't go out of my way to find organic, "natural," (gangrene is natural, right?) or biodynamic wines. From Wordnik.com. [Raphael 2008 Naturale (White Blend)] Reference
The etymology of gangrene derives from the Latin word "gangraena" and from the Greek gangraina, which means "putrefaction of tissues". From Wordnik.com. [Find Me A Cure] Reference
This type of gangrene occurs when blood flow to an internal organ is blocked. From Wordnik.com. [Find Me A Cure] Reference
No; a mormal - as suffered by Chaucer's Cook - was a localised ulcer, maybe gangrenous but not "gangrene" in the general sense. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-04-01] Reference
Contempt is a kind of gangrene, which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope] Reference
A century before antibiotics, infections such as gangrene, dysentery, and typhus killed more soldiers than war injuries. From Wordnik.com. [Web Edition | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists] Reference
Finally a doctor came up to me and said, There’s a thing called gangrene, and we don’t want to get in that kind of mess. From Wordnik.com. [Into the Rising Sun] Reference
Complications often cause gangrene and ulcerations. From Wordnik.com. [From Divers To Hoopsters] Reference
But gangrene set in, and he was dead in three days. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
The interstitial form may terminate in abscesses and gangrene. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
Sometimes abscess and gangrene of the inflamed parotid gland occur. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI)] Reference
I may mention the occurrence of acute traumatic gangrene in two cases. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
That's good news in the sense that amputation is better news than gangrene. From Wordnik.com. [David Helvarg: Oil Gone, Is It?] Reference
After my third week, an epidemic of hospital gangrene broke out in my ward. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
Such terrible scourges as pyaemia and hospital gangrene were rife in all of them. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
The point at which it assumes the chronic form is between congestion and gangrene. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
If gangrene occurs, it may be necessary to remove a part, or the whole of the udder. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
Such operations always make them worse, and induce a more rapid approach to gangrene. From Wordnik.com. [An Epitome of the Homeopathic Healing Art Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time] Reference
A durian fruit reeks from next to the washbasin, powerful funk of gangrene and crotchrot. From Wordnik.com. [Rough Cut] Reference
"Our sport has gangrene," recently retired ice dancer Sophie Moniotte of France told NEWSWEEK. From Wordnik.com. [Our Sport Has Gangrene] Reference
Believes that flies may carry disease; refers to flies in connection with gangrene and wounds. From Wordnik.com. [Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases] Reference
If a wound is not sterilized at once with iodine a man generally gets gangrene and dies of it. From Wordnik.com. ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference
To the memory of Ric Richards who by a gangrene first lost a toe, then a leg and lastly his life. From Wordnik.com. [Quaint Epitaphs] Reference
They both have symptoms of gas gangrene, and I am afraid one will lose an arm and the other a leg. From Wordnik.com. ['My Beloved Poilus'] Reference
Strangely enough, the wound in my remaining arm, which still suppurated, was seized with gangrene. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
It is that ugly letter-press which smarts and rankles, and festers at last into a gangrene of hatred. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
"The war is our gangrene and we live with it, rather than embarking on the radical surgery of ending it.". From Wordnik.com. [Lost In The Hell Of War] Reference
Severe inflammation, especially if localized and superficial, may result in death of the part or gangrene. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
We have had a number of deaths from that awful gas gangrene; there is not much hope when that attacks them. From Wordnik.com. ['My Beloved Poilus'] Reference
The fibres of the stomach and bowels are contracted -- abscesses, gangrene, and schirri are found in the viscera. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
More than 1,000 corpses have already been incinerated in Nicaragua to stave off the spread of gangrene and malaria. From Wordnik.com. [Fields Of Death] Reference
A cold, old woman hangs the broken brittle stick near a bed and examines Cybil's gangrene toes with a sharp chisel. From Wordnik.com. [Cream Base Neutral Tan] Reference
According to others, it is by the presence of a few grains of ergot in the bread, that the people of Tuscany lose their limbs in gangrene. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
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