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Gangrene (medicine)


gangrene
<pathology> Death of tissue, usually in considerable mass and generally associated with loss of vascular (nutritive) supply and followed by bacterial invasion and putrefaction.

Compare: necrosis.

Origin: L. Gangraena, Gr. Gangraina = an eating sore