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How to use gangrenous in a sentence

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And to rub salt into the already gangrenous wounds of headbangers, the band members also cut their hair, a no-no in the world of metal.
In 1941 he treated a young Canadian for frostbite, and had to amputate the man's gangrenous fingers.
Delayed diagnosis of acute cholecystitis can lead to gangrenous cholecystitis, gallbladder perforation, and biliary peritonitis.
Painful skin ulcers with gangrenous margins may be a feature of mixed bacterial infections.
One is canker, referring to a gangrenous or ulcerous sore, usually in the mouth, and hence an area of diseased tissue, as in woody stems.
In addition, the gangrenous areas on his toes had sloughed and been replaced almost entirely by healthy tissue.
In severe cases of trench foot, tissue injury is serious enough to cause skin sloughing and subsequent gangrenous change.
The former RAF wireless operator developed sores while on marching duty that became gangrenous, causing his legs to be amputated.
Many soldiers suffered from trench foot, an infection which could turn gangrenous and result in amputation.
Surgery is often required to remove necrotic tissue, and amputation of gangrenous limbs is sometimes necessary.
Let us take the example of a man who tries, when leaving his doctor, to accept the decision of the amputation of his gangrenous leg.
Some species are pathogenic and occur in various purulent or gangrenous infections.
A gangrenous lesion appears in the mouth or on the face: blackish furrow and scabs on the face.
Her discharge from hospital was delayed by the fact that her toes were gangrenous and, because of blood clotting caused by the septicaemia, she had three epileptic seizures.
How can art compete with skeletons and gangrenous hands in glass jars?
When they removed the appendix they found it was gangrenous.
This is an acute and ravaging gangrenous infection that affects children's mouths and faces.
An MSF doctor was reduced to buying a saw in a market to carry out amputations of gangrenous limbs.
Local disinfection, appropriate antibiotics and nutritional supplementation may stop the disease from progressing to the acute gangrenous phase.
Untreated wounds are turning septic and gangrenous, and there have been a few cases of tetanus.
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Examinations after death have shown that thrombosis exists for some distance around the gangrenous mass.
When the congelation is partial, those organs which have been completely frozen become gangrenous and are destroyed.
In the production of gangrenous sloughs, it much resembles the descriptions usually given of sloughing ulcers.
Sometimes the bowel became gangrenous, while aphthae would appear in the mouth and fauces.
If a man had a gangrenous foot would you have patience with anyone who hesitated to amputate it?
Apostema was abscess, ulcus any rather deep erosion, putredo a gangrenous condition, and casus the fall of the uvula.
The case differs from the enucleation of a gangrenous myoma which involves the death of an inviable fetus.
Their brains are gangrenous with memories of cancelled malice.
There are two varieties of the disease, the convulsive and the gangrenous.
A doctor puts his arm back together, but the joint becomes gangrenous and has to be amputated.
I have decided to raise the money for Facing Africa, which helps combat Noma, a gangrenous infection affecting the face of young children.
The rusty wire caused her leg to be gangrenous, making amputation the only option.
The reaction of the gangrenous matter in certain stages was alkaline.
Deputy chairman Marinos Sizopoulos said being without a leader was a wound that had to be treated, lest it became gangrenous.
But to get officials to let him fly back to the UK, they had to hide his gangrenous foot.
It is often due to embolism of infective material, gangrenous matter, etc.
I speak to Carre in veiled words of the troublesome, gangrenous leg.
Cameron found his gorge rise at the sight of the gangrenous ankle.
Used litter was obtained from two different broiler farms with or without a history of gangrenous dermatitis, where at least 10 broiler flocks had already been grown.
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