Sentence examples for gangrenous from inspiring English sources

An MSF doctor was reduced to buying a saw in a market to carry out amputations of gangrenous limbs.

Untreated wounds are turning septic and gangrenous, and there have been a few cases of tetanus.

Surgery is often required to remove necrotic tissue, and amputation of gangrenous limbs is sometimes necessary.

A series of acute, often gangrenous, infections in livestock and waterfowl are caused by other species of Clostridium: braxy (C. septicum), blackleg (C. chauvoei), bacillary hemoglobinuria (C. haemolyticum), and black disease and bighead (C. novyi).

Many addicts suffer brain damage and speech impediments from the drug, but it is from the fact it often causes blood vessels to burst - leaving strong-smelling gangrenous wounds to fester on the body - that krokodil acquired its sinister name and reputation.

Independent Canadian channel CHCH-DT said two men had been hospitalised in St. Catharines, Ontario with gangrenous body sores similar to those seen on Krokodil users.

When war came, she left her studies in order to train at an army hospital in Camberwell in south-east London and quickly familiarised herself with arduous working conditions, filth and cockroaches, exhaustion, gangrenous wounds and frequent death.

But having sworn never to set foot in a hospital again, four years later she stood at death's door with gangrenous appendicitis and peritonitis.

His left arm had been ripped off, either in an accident or as a result of the fighting between Congolese and rebel troops, and was badly infected and gangrenous.

Although a deficiency of catalase activity is noted in many tissues of the body, including the red blood cells, bone marrow, liver, and skin, only about half of the affected persons have symptoms, which consist of recurrent infections of the gums and associated oral structures that may lead to gangrenous lesions.

Johnson dresses his gangrenous wound with a carrier bag.