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Definitions: Gangrene |
GangreneNoun1. Necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass. 2. The localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply). Verb1. Undergo necrosis; of tissue. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gangrene" was first used: 14th century. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that you see any one afflicted with gangrene, foretells the death of a parent or near relative. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Health | Death and putrefaction of tissue usually due to a loss of blood supply. (references) |
Public Administration | Extensive necrosis or death of tissue as a result of reduced or cut-off blood supply. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
One specific example of gangrene is so called diabetic foot that can be seen in long-standing complicated diabetes. It is caused by a combination of arterial ischemia, injury and poor healing that is rather common in diabetics.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Gangrene."
Synonyms: GangreneSynonyms: mortification (n), necrosis (n), slough (n), sphacelus (n), mortify (v), necrose (v), sphacelate (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disease | Sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boil; pimple, wen; (swelling); carbuncle, gathering, imposthume, peccant humor, issue; rot, canker, cold sore, fever sore; cancer, carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease, malignancy, tumor; caries, mortification, corruption, gangrene, sphacelus, sphacelation, leprosy; eruption, rash, breaking out. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Gangrene |
| English words defined with "gangrene": cryopathy ♦ ergotism ♦ frostbite ♦ Gangrenate, Gangrened, Gangrenescent, Gangrening ♦ Mormal ♦ Senile gangrene, Sphacel, Sphacelated. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "gangrene": Acatalasia ♦ Clostridium perfringens ♦ Dental Pulp Necrosis ♦ Fournier Gangrene ♦ Gas Gangrene ♦ HYDROLEA SPINOSA ♦ Nicotinyl Alcohol. (references) |
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Screenplays | I think I have gangrene. (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset) Blue blood isn't immune to gangrene. (Society Doctor; writing credit: Theodore Reeves; Michael Fessier) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | U.S. Army. Lincoln General Hospital, Washington, D.C. : Gangrene Tents.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It was not without difficulty that the chloruretted lotions and the nitrate of silver brought the gangrene to an end. |
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Health | A rare but serious complication of primary Raynaud's is dry gangrene, or dead flesh. (references) | |
Long-term health problems following acute Rocky Mountain spotted fever infection include partial paralysis of the lower extremities, gangrene requiring amputation of fingers, toes, or arms or legs, hearing loss, loss of bowel or bladder control, movement disorders, and language disorders. (references) | ||
Regularly snorting cocaine, for example, can lead to loss of sense of smell, nosebleeds, problems with swallowing, hoarseness, and an overall irritation of the nasal septum, which can lead to a chronically inflamed, runny nose. Ingested cocaine can cause severe bowel gangrene, due to reduced blood flow. And, persons who inject cocaine have puncture marks and "tracks," most commonly in their forearms. (references) | ||
Human Rights | Pakistan | The shackles used are tight, heavy, and painful, and reportedly have led to gangrene and amputation in several cases. (references) |
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| "Gangrene" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gangrene" is used about 55 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 55 | 45,713 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "gangrene": Fournier Gangrene ♦ Gas Gangrene ♦ senile gangrene. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gangrene | 328 |
gangrene picture | 32 |
gas gangrene | 29 |
fourniers gangrene | 20 |
dry gangrene | 14 |
gangrene symptom | 12 |
gang gangrene | 8 |
diabetes gangrene | 6 |
gangrene photo | 6 |
fournier gangrene | 6 |
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| Language | Translations for "gangrene"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gangrenizohet, gangrenë (mortification). (various references) | |
Arabic | غنغر, غرغرينا, تغنغر (mortify), الموات, الغنغرينا, الأكال مرض, شر مميت. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гангренясвам (mortify, sphacelate), гангрена (canker, necrosis), поквара (corruption, debauchery, depravity, infamy, obliquity, rot, ruin, taint, ulcer). (various references) | |
Chinese | 疽 . (various references) | |
Czech | gangréna. (various references) | |
Danish | gangræna (gangrenous inflammation), gangræn (gangrenous inflammation), gangræn, phoma, kraterråd, koldbrand (cold gangrene, foot gangrene, necrosis), brand (actionable fire). (various references) | |
Dutch | gangreen. (various references) | |
Farsi | فسادعضوبراثرنرسیدن خون , فاسدشدن (Canker, Decay, Degenerate, Putrefy, Spoil, Vitiate), قانقاریابوجودامدن , قانقاریا, تباه کردن (Deprave, Destroy, Vitiate). (various references) | |
Finnish | kuolio (necrosis). (various references) | |
French | gangrène. (various references) | |
German | wundbrand, gangrän, brand (bark scorch, blaze, brand, burning, burning passion, canker, conflagration, fire, firebrand, firing, mortification, plight, raging thirst, rust, scorch, smut, sunburn, sunscald, white spot). (various references) | |
Greek | γάγγραινα (mortification). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מקק (putrefaction, rot, sphacelus), מק (decay, putridity, rot), אכלת (emaciation, tuberculosis), רקב (decay, putrefaction, putridity, rot, rotten). (various references) | |
Hungarian | üszkösödés (mortification, putrescence), gangréna. (various references) | |
Italian | gangrena, cancrena (canker). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 脱疽 , 壊疽 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | えそ, っそ. (various references) | |
Manx | loauys (caries, decay, putresence, putridity, rot, rottenness), loauaghey (go off, putrefy, rot, rotting), gangrail (running sore). (various references) | |
Norwegian | koldbrann. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | angrenegay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | gangrena (canker, mortification). (various references) | |
Romanian | gangrena, se cangrena, cangrenã (corruption). (various references) | |
Russian | гангрена (mortification). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | gangrena, izumiranje tkiva. (various references) | |
Spanish | gangrena (mortification). (various references) | |
Swedish | kallbrand (mortification), brand (actionable fire, canker, conflagration, fire, mildew). (various references) | |
Thai | เนื้อร้าย, กลายเป็นเนื้อร้าย. (various references) | |
Turkish | yozlaşma (degeneracy, degeneration, devolution, dry rot, graft, retrogression, taint), kangren yapmak, kangren olmak (mortify, sphacelate), kangren (mortification, necrosis, sphacelation), ahlâki bozulma. (various references) | |
Ukranian | гангрена, мертвіти (die). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bệnh thối hoại. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | gangraina. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Phoma exigua. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gangrene": gangrened, gangrenes. (additional references) | |
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"Gangrene" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gangraena, gangreen, gangren, gran-gran, grangrene, Jungeren. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-g-n-n-r" | |
-1 letter: engager. | |
-2 letters: engage, enrage, ganger, genera, grange, nagger, raggee, reggae. | |
-3 letters: agene, agger, agree, anger, eager, eagre, eggar, egger, gager, genre, green, ragee, ranee, range, regna. | |
-4 letters: agee, ager, earn, eger, erne, gaen, gage, gane, gang, gear, gene, gnar, gran, gree, near, nene, rage, rang. | |
-5 letters: age, ane, are, ear, egg, eng, era, ere, erg, ern, gae, gag, gan, gar, gee, gen, nae, nag, nan, nee, rag, ran, ree, reg. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-g-n-n-r" | |
+1 letter: gangrened, gangrenes. | |
+2 letters: generating, greatening, reengaging, renegading. | |
+3 letters: endangering, gratineeing, reengraving. | |
+4 letters: degenerating, garnisheeing, generalising, generalizing, greenmailing, guaranteeing, reengagement, regenerating, sloganeering. | |
+5 letters: gelandesprung, glaringnesses, nonaggressive, nonsegregated, organogeneses, organogenesis, organogenetic, outgeneraling, peregrinating, rechallenging, reengagements, reintegrating, renegotiating, roentgenogram. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 61 6E 67 72 65 6E 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .- -. --. .-. . -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100001 01101110 01100111 01110010 01100101 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G a n g r e n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0061 006E 0067 0072 0065 006E 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4167807384718071 |
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