If neglected, it may become ulcerous or gangrenous, which is a very serious condition. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother and Her Child] Reference
Or, to put it more simply, the wound is gangrenous. From Wordnik.com. [King Rat]
Note: green polish on toes looks gangrenous and repulsive. From Wordnik.com. [Lesley M. M. Blume: Let's Bring Back ... 10 Things That Are Ready For A Comeback] Reference
Large portions of the skin may become gangrenous and slough. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
No, olivine wasn't right - gangrenous would be more appropriate. From Wordnik.com. [Orphan Star]
"Am I zombified, or just gangrenous?" he asked seriously. From Wordnik.com. [Chainer's Torment]
The large intestine and rectum are often ulcerated and gangrenous. From Wordnik.com. [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference
Puffat's excruciatingly agonizing gangrenous leg was kicked repeatedly. From Wordnik.com. [Si'Wren of the Patriarchs] Reference
And all it took was getting shot, gangrenous, and half frozen to death. From Wordnik.com. [Crystal Rain] Reference
The large intestine was found to have been damaged and to be gangrenous. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 11, 2006] Reference
There are two varieties of the disease, the convulsive and the gangrenous. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883] Reference
Acute gangrenous cellulitis: as with suppuration, plus crepitations on palpation. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 14] Reference
It washed out in waves, the white obelisks around him reflecting its gangrenous glow. From Wordnik.com. [Chosen Of The Gods]
Some have been hospitalised for malnutrition, pneumonia and for gangrenous appendages. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Start with grisly slides of gangrenous limbs and feet swollen with fungus-filled nodules. From Wordnik.com. [The Curious Case of the Calamitous Cannabis] Reference
On account of exposures, many wounds were gangrenous when the patients reached the hospital. From Wordnik.com. [Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army Being a Narrative of Personal Adventures in the Infantry, Ordnance, Cavalry, Courier, and Hospital Services; With an Exhibition of the Power, Purposes, Earnestness, Military Despotism, and Demoralization of the South] Reference
Or it was a fight with my mother and a meat cleaver, or it was an otter bite turned gangrenous. From Wordnik.com. [Separate] Reference
December 12 with a gangrenous foot, caused by poor circulation following a motorcycle accident. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Three days later, the wounded man was begging to be killed; one arm and one leg were gangrenous. From Wordnik.com. [Despoilers of the Golden Empire] Reference
The author compares this act to having a gangrenous limb grafted onto one's perfect immortal body. From Wordnik.com. [In the Garden of Iden] Reference
We performed over 100 amputations on severe crushing injuries that had become gangrenous or infected. From Wordnik.com. [Nathan Harden: On the Ground in Haiti: Picture 9/11 Eight Miles in Diameter] Reference
And now it was as if that sword wound had spewed out the foul, gangrenous poison corrupting his soul. From Wordnik.com. [Dragons of Spring Dawning]
However, I am sure that this is a gangrenous limb that is poisoning the "body" and needs to be removed. From Wordnik.com. [Economic "Stimulus" Considerations] Reference
No ventilation and practically all with Spanish influenza and, in addition, many with gangrenous wounds. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference
"We're like someone with a gangrenous foot who leaves it to rot because it won't kill him tomorrow," he says. From Wordnik.com. [Lost In The Hell Of War] Reference
I felt as though John had cut me off like a gangrenous limb -- total amputation from all that I had been or known. From Wordnik.com. [John]
Entire storefronts were up for lease, gangrenous empty husks threatening to spread their disease to the other stores. From Wordnik.com. [7/31/02 You never get to] Reference
Many are emaciated and sickly with crusty, oozing eyes, ear infections, swollen teats, gangrenous skin and/or abscessed feet. From Wordnik.com. [Will the 'Oprah Effect' send puppy mills packing?] Reference
These are carbuncles one or two inches in diameter that are hot and tender at first, but later become gangrenous, diffused swellings. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
The thought sprung unbidden into her mind and she made haste to bury it under the grim details concerning a patient's gangrenous appendix. From Wordnik.com. [Two Weeks To Remember]
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