Usually means: Dead tissue resulting from necrosis.
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  1. sphacel: Wordnik
  2. sphacel: Wiktionary
  3. Sphacel, sphacel: Dictionary.com
  4. Sphacel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. sphacel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Sphacel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. sphacel: FreeDictionary.org
  8. Sphacel: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  2. sphacel-: Medical dictionary

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▸ noun:  (medicine, obsolete) gangrene

Similar:
mormal, scirrhoma, scleragogy, gangreen, phlegmagogue, king's evil, scaevity, scirrhus, scorbut, sanguisuge, more...

Opposite:
healing, recovery, regeneration, restoration

Types:
superficial, deep, gas gangrene, more...

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Similar:
mormal, scirrhoma, scleragogy, gangreen, phlegmagogue, king's evil, scaevity, scirrhus, scorbut, sanguisuge, more...

Opposite:
healing, recovery, regeneration, restoration

Types:
superficial, deep, gas gangrene, more...



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