(n.) 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.
(v. t. & i.) To produce gangrene in; to be affected with gangrene.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clostridium septicum is a bacterial species associated with gas gangrene in both humans and animals.
(2) This paper details the first case report of a patient with fulminant, gangrenous, ischemic colitis caused by polyarteritis nodosa which was successfully treated surgically.
(3) Phenol chemical lumbar sympathectomy is an additional aid in the management of ischaemic rest pain and incipient gangrene.
(4) Most of the patients were delayed cases showing mild to severe degrees of trophic, sensory and motor disturbances in the limbs without gangrene.
(5) Fournier gangrene is a disease which primarily affects adults.
(6) Our experience indicates that the lower gastrointestinal tract should be considered as a possible cause of infection in all cases of synergistic gangrene of the scrotum and penis.
(7) CAA is now thought to play a key role in several multiple etiology disease syndromes; hemorrhagic syndrome; aplastic anemia, gangrenous dermatitis, hemorrhagic anemia syndrome, hemorrhagic aplastic anemia syndrome, anemia dermatitis and blue wing disease.
(8) Two of the three patients (both females) in whom clott migration occured in only one limb developed below-knee gangrene of the affected side.
(9) Patients with sigmoid volvulus with no clinical evidence of gangrene were selected for study, and all were given a trial of non-operative reduction by proctoscopy and passage of a rectal tube.
(10) Acute cholecystitis was found at operation in 33 patients (28%), empyema in nine (7.6%), gangrene of the gallbladder in three (2.5%), and 24 patients (20.3%) were found to have common bile duct stones.
(11) A 28-year-old man developed gangrene of a foot leading to a below-the-knee amputation.
(12) The prognosis was better in patients with gas gangrene after trauma than in patients with gas gangrene resulting from vascular insufficiency or malignant tumours.
(13) Three successfully managed cases of Fournier's gangrene, all with diabetes, are reported.
(14) In six of the ten patients, the presenting complaints were ascribable to incipient gangrene of the toes and several of these patients additionally developed occlusion of tibial and larger arteries while under our observation.
(15) Salient clinical findings in this case include DIC associated with extensive ecchymosis and subsequent gangrene of the skin, thrombotic complications that began on the third day of life.
(16) Lumbar sympathectomy appears to be most beneficial in the management of gangrene of the toe with a limb salvage rate of 75 per cent.
(17) A case is described with multiple gangrene of the fingers of a female, aged 55, with confirmed cirrhosis of liver and diabetes mellitus.
(18) The positive effect of the Defluina-medication on the initial--partly severe--varicose ulcera, with gangrenous alterations, has to be pointed out.
(19) Eleven patients had bacterial gangrene of the foot; two of these patients were less than 23 years of age, and five patients were not known to have had diabetes previously.
(20) Five year cumulative primary patency was 71% overall, 75% in patients with disabling claudication, 61% in those with rest pain and 46% in those with gangrene.
Mortification
Definition:
(n.) The act of mortifying, or the condition of being mortified
(n.) The death of one part of an animal body, while the rest continues to live; loss of vitality in some part of a living animal; gangrene.
(n.) Destruction of active qualities; neutralization.
(n.) Subjection of the passions and appetites, by penance, absistence, or painful severities inflicted on the body.
(n.) Hence: Deprivation or depression of self-approval; abatement or pride; humiliation; chagrin; vexation.
(n.) That which mortifies; the cause of humiliation, chagrin, or vexation.
(n.) A gift to some charitable or religious institution; -- nearly synonymous with mortmain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Physical barriers are imposed upon them, and they go through a process of mortification of the self which begins soon after the marriage.
(2) Pope Francis in DC: pontiff alludes to sex abuse and political divisions – live Read more “I am also conscious of the courage with which you have faced difficult moments in the recent history of the church in this country without fear of self-criticism and at the cost of mortification and great sacrifice,” he said.
(3) The adolescent internalization of aggression, intense castration anxiety, and pervasive narcissistic mortification led to retreat from resolution of revived oedipal conflict and to concomitant detrimental superego alteration.
(4) Repentance, the process of change in Evangelical Renewal Therapy, is achieved through the analysis of moral action, rebuke, confession, prayer, recompense, and mortification through good works.
(5) That was our first response – mortification that we had completely blown our relationship with you.” Many people have been taken by the swagger displayed by Marion, four, as she entered the room and marched up to her father’s desk.
(6) Any dental loss must be compensated, but also any relative loss when dental trauma requires therapeutic mortification.
(7) The man the NME once referred to as the coolest in London sits in the Soho offices of a film distribution company, wearing a blue polka-dot shirt and an expression of absolute mortification.
(8) In the meantime, she is charming, funny, talking in long strings of non sequiturs, the punchline often self-mortification.
(9) Results are generally stable, especially after mentoplasty, but from the dental aspect pulp mortifications are not rare.
(10) This process speeded up by the rapid mortification of the ancient group of dentists.
(11) The consequences to patients hospitalized in such an environment-the powerlessness, depersonalization, segregation, mortification, and self-labeling-seem undoubtedly countertherapeutic.
(12) The mortifications of the past few months do seem, however, to have rallied support.
(13) These skins preserve their normal histological aspect during the first 3 days, then, when revascularisation is setting in, superficial areas of epidermic mortification, opposite dermal hypovascularised zones, appear.
(14) Photograph: Thomas Butler for the Guardian But once we'd passed that initial mortification, it was fine; we were able to laugh about our bizarre predicament.
(15) Emotional coping employed in these fields can be interpreted 1) as defence of needs for dependence and regain of autonomy and 2) as narcissistic rage as a response to narcissistic mortification.
(16) Perhaps it's all bound up with the fact that Gleeson knows people think he's had something of a meteoric rise, aided by the fame of his father , who gave up teaching to become a full-time actor at 36, and enjoyed his breakthrough as Hamish in Braveheart four years later (12-year-old Domnhall's pride was apparently tempered by mortification that the part required his father to show his buttocks).
(17) Katz, a former deputy editor of the Guardian , also reflected on the “bowel-loosening mortification of the moment” he realised he had publicly described on Twitter, just a few days into the job, Paxman’s Newsnight interview with Labour MP Rachel Reeves as “boring, snoring” .
(18) Such "companions" allow these children to attempt to master creatively a variety of narcissistic mortifications suffered in reality and to displace unacceptable affects.
(19) Part of the appeal of Birthmarks lay in its being a young man's book, magnetised by youthful mortifications just as it was energised by a youthful pleasure in pure skill.
(20) Yes, they all looked ridiculous and, yes, any photographic evidence of such eras is a source of utter mortification to me.