Gangrene is valid Scrabble Word

Is gangrene a scrabble word?
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Is gangrene valid Words with Friends?
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8 letters word
10 points in Scrabble
14 points in WWF

Definitions for GANGRENE in dictionary:

VERB:

to suffer loss of tissue in part of the body
become affected with gangrene
To produce gangrene in; to be affected with gangrene.
undergo necrosis
become or cause to become affected with gangrene

NOUN:

localized death and decomposition of body tissue, resulting from obstructed circulation or bacterial infection
decay of body tissue as a result of disease or injury
A term formerly restricted to mortification of the soft tissues which has not advanced so far as to produce complete loss of vitality; but now applied to mortification of the soft parts in any stage.
necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass
the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply)

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to suffer the loss of tissue in part of the body

Words related to GANGRENE

gangrened12 gangrenes11 gangrening13 gangrenous12 sphacelation19 thanatosis13

Words that contain GANGRENE

gangrened12 gangrenes11

How to use GANGRENE in a sentence

A slight inflammation in one of his toes, became, from neglect, a gangrene.
A quack had brought a remedy which would cure gangrene, he said.
Accordingly, as the formation of pus increases, we get pressure upon and final gangrene of the sensitive sole and of the sensitive laminae of the bars and the wall.
It may be that in some odd cases, although it has not yet been our lot to meet with them, gangrene may terminate in the casting off of one or more hoofs.
As a consequence, any rough use of the drawing-knife, or an accidental wounding with sharp flints or stones, leads to exposure of the sensitive structures and local gangrene.
On 20th August, 1715, he was attacked by senile gangrene, which gradually spread up the leg until on the 30th it became fatal.
Gangrene had set in long ago, and his condition was beyond description.
These when burnished made a handsome showing until gangrene set in.
But soon afterwards gangrene appeared again, still higher up, and a third operation was necessary.
But her gangrene is contracting, the sound flesh advancing on it, and all there will be well.

He tried to persuade her of its uselessness, covering the leg in which gangrene was far advanced, and telling her death was at hand.
If gangrene does set in, it will be accompanied by severe attacks of shivering and sweating.
Sometimes there is gangrene at the corners of the mouth and this may result in death or horrible deformity.
Although the wound was little more than a scratch, he died of gangrene a fortnight later.
Gangrene had been able to get by without change, it seemed.
The revolution has an enemy, the old world, and to that it is pitiless, just as the surgeon has an enemy, gangrene, and is pitiless to that.
They both decided that I had been inoculated with gangrene while dressing wounds, and for some weeks I continued to sink.
To the community, sedition is a fever, corruption is a gangrene, and idleness an atrophy.
There have been two operations for gangrene since he has been here.
This hypocrisy, a characteristic of the times, is a gangrene in gallantry.
It is introducing vice into the sanctuary of justice, and gangrene into the vital parts of the commonwealth.
But though this gangrene can never be entirely eradicated, the experience of late years has shewn that it may be prevented from increasing, and even considerably reduced.
Now one of these tales is obviously false and there is evidence to show which, for the scar of a clean cut wound is different from that following gangrene.
The beneficiary filed a claim for pension in November, 1885, alleging that her husband died of gangrene.
Scott was ever my enemy, the other knave died of a gangrene in his arm suddenly after.

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