The word 'gangrene' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun, defined as "the death of part of the body caused by a lack of blood supply, typically resulting in decay and putrefaction of the tissue." Example sentence: The man's leg had to be amputated due to gangrene.
"It's like getting gangrene on your foot and there is nothing you can do to stop it from affecting your leg and ultimately your whole body," she said.
As a result, while other men's feet were slowly rotting from trench foot or gangrene, "[mine] were as good as anything".
Its most serious known effect is liver cancer about 10-15 yeafterftexposureure, so it is not exactly a shock anti-personnel weapon.Gas gangrene.
Caused by the bacterium Clostridium perfringens, gas gangrene is a particularly nasty condition.
Mr Fuchs has seen cells built for eight men holding 48, cases of gangrene and tuberculosis left untreated and prisoners kept in unventilated metal shipping containers under the baking sun.
The Red Cross in Geneva was told in 1943 that Polish women in Ravensbrück were being injected with gangrene to test new drugs and having healthy limbs amputated as part of an experiment about transplants.
"To think is to add a flame to fire," wrote Balzac, mental activity being in his view an "instrument of destruction that deteriorates our nerves and is the cause of our illnesses and death".Whatever the ultimate cause, heart disease and gangrene got the better of Balzac.
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If they cannot be treated successfully, the result may be gangrene.
Surgical amputation may be a lifesaving measure for injured persons suffering from both loss of blood and infection; for persons with diabetic or arteriosclerotic gangrene, in whom amputation may be the only method of preventing spread of the gangrene; and for persons suffering from malignant tumours of soft tissue or bone.
The rotting of the dead tissue is known as gangrene.
