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To produce gangrene in; to be affected with gangrene.

Tending to mortification or gangrene.

er directly, by chemically destroying the part, or indirectly by causing inflammation and gangrene. Dunglison.

n morbid conditions, in which there is entire or comparative absence of moisture; as, dry gangrene; dry catarrh.

and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers. Wounds immedicable Rankle, and fester, and gangrene. Milton. Unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester. South. Hatred . . . festered in the hearts of the children of the soil. Macaulay.

To gangrene. [Obs.]

Affected by, or produced by, gangrene; of the nature of gangrene.

To grow or spread over; to affect injuriously and progressively; as, gangrene invades healthy tissue.

A bad sore; a gangrene; a cancer. [Obs.] [Written also morrimal and mortmal.] Chaucer.

To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in.

Mortification or gangrene of bone, or the death of a bone or portion of a bone in mass, as opposed to its death by molecular disintegration. See Caries.

infirmities of old age; as, senile weakness. "Senile maturity of judgment." Boyle. Senile gangrene (Med.), a form of gangrene occuring particularly in old people, and caused usually by insufficient blood supply due to degeneration of the walls of the smaller arteries.

Gangrene.

To affect with gangrene.

Affected with gangrene; mortified.

Gangrenous part; gangrene; slough.