Usually means: Tissue death due to blood loss.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word gangrenous:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. gangrenous: Merriam-Webster
  2. gangrenous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gangrenous: Collins English Dictionary
  4. gangrenous: Vocabulary.com
  5. gangrenous: Wordnik
  6. gangrenous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. gangrenous: Wiktionary
  8. gangrenous: Dictionary.com
  9. Gangrenous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Gangrenous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. gangrenous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. gangrenous: Rhymezone
  13. Gangrenous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. gangrenous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. gangrenous: FreeDictionary.org
  16. gangrenous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. gangrenous: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. gangrenous: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. gangrenous: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. gangrenous: Medical dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Indicative of or afflicted with gangrene.

Similar:
mortified, unhealthy, anguinous, ganglike, maggoted, sanguinolent, spacelated, sanguinary, rigored, cankerous, more...

Opposite:
healthy, sound, intact, unspoiled, undamaged

Types:
dry gangrene, wet gangrene, gas gangrene, more...

Phrases:
gangrenous appendicitis, gangrenous stomatitis, gangrenous necrosis, gangrenous mastitis, gangrenous ergotism, more...

Adjectives:
acute, later, vesicular, pustular, degenerate, idiopathic, umbilicus, simple, central, petechial, epidemic

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Similar:
mortified, unhealthy, anguinous, ganglike, maggoted, sanguinolent, spacelated, sanguinary, rigored, cankerous, more...

Opposite:
healthy, sound, intact, unspoiled, undamaged

Types:
dry gangrene, wet gangrene, gas gangrene, more...

Phrases:
gangrenous appendicitis, gangrenous stomatitis, gangrenous necrosis, gangrenous mastitis, gangrenous ergotism, gangrenous dermatitis, gangrenous cellulitis, gangrenous emphysema, gangrenous pneumonia, more...

Adjectives:
acute, later, vesicular, pustular, degenerate, idiopathic, umbilicus, simple, central, petechial, epidemic



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