English-Spanish translations for gangrene

• gangrena
  Los bálsamos engañosos de un restablecimiento puramente económico desaparecerían con rapidez, atrapados por la gangrena de las convulsiones ambientales, por tanto sanitarias, y en definitiva 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