Gangrenous and Infected

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Gangrenous adjective - Suffering from tissue death.

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Infected and gangrenous are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Infected" instead an adjective "Gangrenous".

Nearby Words: gangrene, gangrened

Infected adjective - Containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms.

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Gangrenous and infected are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Gangrenous" instead an adjective "Infected".

Nearby Words: infection, infective, infecting

The cut gem can still cut or irritate the eye socket, leading the cat to dig or scratch it out; the eye socket could also become infected or gangrenous.

Source: Videogame / Dark Tales
Tsali's body never physically accepted his Unwilling Roboticisation; his remaining biological parts are completely infected and gangrenous, keeping him in constant agony.

Source: And I Must Scream / Fan Works
Connors has a missing arm and in Requiem for a Dream, Baker played a doctor with an infected, gangrenous arm.

Source: Hilarious In Hindsight / Film

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