English-French translations for gangrene

• gangrène
  Saddam a aussi fabriqué de l'aflatoxine, une substance qui provoque le cancer du foie et des clostridies, responsables de la gangrène gazeuse. Saddam has also produced aflatoxin which causes liver cancer and clostridium which results in gas gangrene.
  Les baumes trompeurs d'un redressement purement économique disparaîtraient rapidement, rattrapés par la gangrène des convulsions environnementales, donc sanitaires, et en définitive sociales. The deceptive salve of a purely economic recovery would soon wear off, overtaken by the gangrene of spasms in the environmental arena, and thus the health arena, and ultimately, the social arena.

Definition of gangrene

• The necrosis or rotting of flesh, usually caused by lack of blood supply
• A damaging or corrupting influence
• To produce gangrene in
• To be affected with gangrene
• To corrupt; To cause to become degenerate

Examples

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

Related words

• gangrenous
• gangrenous necrosis
• gas gangrene
• gaz gangrene infection