sphacelusn.
/ˈsfasɪləs/ Pathology.
1. Necrosis, mortification; an instance of this.
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gangrenea1400
mortification?a1425
slayinga1425
superfluence?a1425
death?c1425
necrosis1583
sphacelus1585
gangrenation1598
sideration1625
sphacel1634
necrosy1657
sphacelation1657
necrobiosis1860
1585 J. Banister Wecker's Compend. Chyrurg. iii. 488 If the malice of this vlcer..fall a creeping, it turneth to Sphacelus.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique ii. xlii. 256 The flying fire, the ringworme, the leprosie, the Gangrena and Sphacelus.
1655 Woodall's Surgeons Mate (new ed.) 383 A Gangrene is truly termed an unperfect mortification in the fleshy parts onely, but a Sphacelus is a perfect and total privation of sense.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Sphacelus is distinguished by the Lividness or Blackness of the Part affected.
1802 W. Heberden, Jr. tr. W. Heberden Comm. Hist. & Cure Dis. xxxi. 154 Ending fatally in a sphacelus of the bowels.
1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 519 Gangrene, gangrenous inflammation, or inflammation which shows a tendency to terminate in sphacelus.
1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (ed. 2) I. xiii. 548 General inflammation of the pulp, following sooner or later on the previous condition, and resulting in its sphacelus.
2. A mass of mortified tissue; a slough.
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slough1513
eschar1543
sloughiness1788
sloughing1800
sphacelus1881
1881 A. Flint Treat. Princ. Med. (ed. 5) 52 A necrosed mass of tissue is called a sphacelus or slough.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 575 The sphacelus becomes black, dry and hard.
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