sphacelationn.
/sfasɪˈleɪʃən/ Pathology.
The fact or process of becoming mortified; the formation of a sphacelus.
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gangrenea1400
mortification?a1425
slayinga1425
superfluence?a1425
death?c1425
necrosis1583
sphacelus1585
gangrenation1598
sideration1625
sphacel1634
necrosy1657
sphacelation1657
necrobiosis1860
1657 Physical Dict. Sphacelus, deadness of any part. Sphacelation, the same as before.
1665 R. Boyle New Exper. & Observ. Cold vi. 204 The Gangrænes and Sphacelations that often rob living men of frozen Toes.
1718 J. Quincy Pharmacopœia Officinalis 138 The Insensibility which sometimes the Opium induces, so as to endanger a Sphacelation.
1771 D. Lysons Ess. Effects Camphire 10 Against such violent internal inflammations as are productive of sphacelation.
1807 S. Cooper First Lines Pract. Surg. I. i. v. 29 Before a stop is put to the expansion of the disorder, and..when the sphacelation is complete.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 128 The mass of ulceration and sphacelation in which..the vessels are often involved.
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