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Gangrene

(Science: pathology) death of tissue, usually in considerable mass and generally associated with loss of vascular (nutritive) supply and followed by bacterial invasion and putrefaction.

Compare: necrosis.

Origin: L. Gangraena, gr. Gangraina = an eating sore The localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply).Undergo necrosis; the tissue around the wound necrosed.Necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass.A condition where tissue begins to decay due to bad circulation in that area, making it easy pray for infection to set in via bacteria.


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... different toxins. For example, food intoxication may occur with enterotoxigenic strains of perfringens. Other toxins are responsible of gas gangrene, while site of infection, and host susceptibility are (of course) very important to determine the disease.

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