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What does gangrenous mean?

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Adjective
  1. Indicative of or afflicted with gangrene.
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Examinations after death have shown that thrombosis exists for some distance around the gangrenous mass.
The former RAF wireless operator developed sores while on marching duty that became gangrenous, causing his legs to be amputated.
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 addition, the gangrenous areas on his toes had sloughed and been replaced almost entirely by healthy tissue.
In the production of gangrenous sloughs, it much resembles the descriptions usually given of sloughing ulcers.
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.

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