gangrenizev.
/ˈɡaŋɡrᵻnʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈɡæŋɡrəˌnaɪz/ Now rare.
intransitive. To become gangrenous. Also transitive: to make gangrenous (rare). Cf. gangrenate v., gangrene v.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > of tissue: become diseased [verb (intransitive)] > become affected by necrosis
gangrenize1598
mortify1603
gangrene1614
ganger1624
gangrenate1631
sphacelate1684
necrose1823
necrotize1906
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > of tissue: become diseased [verb (transitive)] > alter tissue > affect with necrosis
gangrenate1532
gangrene1597
gangrenize1598
sphacelate1653
mortify1748
necrose1890
necrotize1909
1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 50/3 The wounds doe putrifye and gangrænize.
1602 W. Clowes Treat. Cure Struma 49 His sores did putrifye and breake foorth againe, with much loathsome filthinesse, so that I feared his Ulcers would gangrenize.
1860 T. Holmes Syst. Surg. I. 7 Whoever..can predict what changes the same element would undergo if gangrenised in connexion with the body.
1978 Science 24 Feb. 857/1 The probing knife which mercifully cuts away the gangrenizing part.
Derivatives
ˈgangrenized adj. gangrenous; = gangrened adj. 1a.
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1662 S. Clarke Coll. Lives Ten Eminent Divines 182 Upon the neck of his Bladder, they found a stone,..and withall they found an ulcer which was gangrenized.
1862 Madras Q. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 4 369 Less by seeing mere gangrenised texture amid the produced pus, than by interpreting the pus-production itself.
2009 European Jrnl. Pharmacol. 612 32/2 Large infarcts..were widely gangrenized from the subpial to the deep regions of cortices.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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