gangrene

See also: gangrené, gangréné, and gangrène

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French gangrène, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin gangraena, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek γάγγραινα (gángraina, “gangrene”), from γράω (gráō, “I gnaw”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡæŋˌɡɹin/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaŋˌɡɹiːn/

Noun

gangrene (countable and uncountable, plural gangrenes)

1. The necrosis or rotting of flesh, usually caused by lack of blood supply.

   If gangrene sets in, we may have to amputate the foot.

2. (figuratively) A damaging or corrupting influence.
   • 1960, Cora Vreede-de Stuers, The Indonesian woman: struggles and achievements

     Women should earn equal wages with men for equal work done. Child marriages and polygamy are a gangrene on society.

Derived terms

• gas gangrene

Translations

the necrosis or rotting of flesh

• Albanian: gangrenë (sq) f
• Arabic: غَنْغْرِينَة f (ḡanḡrīna), غَرْغْرِينَا f (ḡarḡrīnā)
• Armenian: գանգրենա (hy) (gangrena)
• Basque: haratustel
• Belarusian: гангрэ́на f (hanhréna)
• Bulgarian: гангре́на (bg) f (gangréna)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 壞疽／坏疽 (waai⁶ zeoi¹), 坏疽 (waai⁶ zeoi¹)

  Mandarin: 壞疽／坏疽 (zh) (huàijū), 坏疽 (zh) (huàijū)

• Czech: gangréna f
• Danish: koldbrand c, gangræn c or n
• Dutch: gangreen (nl) n
• Esperanto: gangreno
• Faroese: kolubrandur m
• Finnish: kuolio (fi), gangreeni (fi)
• French: gangrène (fr) f
• Georgian: განგრენა (gangrena)
• German: Gangrän (de) f, Wundbrand (de), Brand (de)
• Greek: γάγγραινα (el) f (gángraina)

  Ancient: γάγγραινα f (gángraina), σφάκελος m (sphákelos)

• Hindi: कोथ (hi) (koth)
• Hungarian: gangréna (hu)
• Icelandic: ýldudrep n, átudrep n, brandur m, kolbrandur m, drep í holdi n
• Italian: cancrena (it) f
• Japanese: 壊疽 (えそ, eso)
• Kazakh: гангрена (gañrena)
• Khmer: ដំបេរលួយ (dɑmbav rɔluəy)
• Korean: 회저 (hoejeo) (壞疽)
• Latin: gangraena (la) f
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• Macedonian: гангре́на f (gangréna)
• Maori: kikohunga
• Marathi: कोथ (koth)
• Mongolian: үхжил (mn) (üxžil)
• Navajo: naałdzid, iʼniiyą́ą́ʼ
• Nepali: सइनको घाउले (sainko ghāule)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: koldbrann m, gangren m or n

  Nynorsk: kaldbrann m, gangren m or n

• Persian: قانقاریا (fa) (qânqâriyâ)
• Polish: zgorzel f, gangrena (pl) f
• Portuguese: gangrena (pt) f
• Romanian: cangrenă (ro) f
• Russian: гангре́на (ru) f (gangréna)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гангрена f

  Roman: gangrena (sh) f

• Sherpa: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: gangréna (sk) f
• Slovene: gangrena f
• Spanish: gangrena (es) f
• Swedish: kallbrand (sv) c, gangrän c or n
• Tagalog: ganggrena
• Tibetan: འདྲུལ་བ ('drul ba)
• Turkish: kangren (tr)
• Ukrainian: гангре́на (uk) f (hanhréna)
• Vietnamese: bệnh thối hoại
• Welsh: madredd m

Verb

1. (transitive) To produce gangrene in.
2. (intransitive) To be affected with gangrene.

Anagrams

• gangreen

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Dutch

Noun

gangrene n (uncountable)

1. (Belgium) Alternative form of gangreen.

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Italian

Noun

gangrene f

1. plural of gangrena

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Spanish

Verb

gangrene

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of gangrenar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of gangrenar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of gangrenar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of gangrenar.