What's the difference between gangrenous and putrefactive?

Gangrenous


Definition:

  • (a.) Affected by, or produced by, gangrene; of the nature of 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.

Putrefactive


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to putrefaction; as, the putrefactive smell or process.
  • (a.) Causing, or tending to promote, putrefaction.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Based on these results, we concluded that the inhibition of putrefactive anaerobe 3679 by sorbate resulted from a stringent-type regulatory response induced by the protonophoric activity of sorbic acid.
  • (2) Furthermore, volatile sulfide and 2-ketobutyrate productions from methionine in a saliva putrefaction system were completely inhibited by the two-phase mouthwash; and consumption of methionine was decreased by 65 percent.
  • (3) Optimal pasteurization of these meats (for reduction of nonspore microflora without affecting indigenous putrefactive anaerobic spore levels) was 50 min at 60 C. C. botulinum spores were recovered with good precision from meat samples inoculated with mixtures of C. botulinum and Putrefactive Anaerobe 3679 at 1:1 and at 1:99 ratios.
  • (4) putrefaction we determined the AChE activity under different conditions.
  • (5) Pea extract contains a factor which improves recovery counts of heat-stressed putrefactive anaerobe spores in a complex medium up to threefold.
  • (6) Any such levity, however, is leavened by the tacit acknowledgment that existence is futile, and we are all just bags of flesh and bones whiling away the days before death and putrefaction sets in.
  • (7) 1966.-A chemically defined medium was used to study the nutritional requirements for germination, outgrowth, and vegetative growth of putrefactive anaerobe 3679.
  • (8) Such formation has as its basis bacterial putrefaction, the degradation of proteins, and the resulting amino acids by microorganisms.
  • (9) In one case no blood was available because of putrefaction, and muscle was analysed for triazolam instead of blood.
  • (10) The effects of dietary fat and dietary fiber (DF) levels in diet on fecal flora, activities of three fecal enzymes, putrefactive metabolites, fecal mutagenicity and fecal properties were studied in eight healthy volunteers.
  • (11) sporogenes (putrefactive anaerobes), and 95 slurry samples were tested.
  • (12) In 70 cases H2, a clear marker of putrefaction, could be identified in the samples.
  • (13) The ancient Greeks extended the concept of putrefaction to involve not only the residues of food, but also those of bile, phlegm, and blood, incorporating it into their humoral theory of disease.
  • (14) They also make evident the decomposition grade that bone organic material undergoes during the postmortem putrefactive process.
  • (15) The authors have investigated ten kinds of putrefactive findings on 368 cadavers which were subjected to medico-legal autopsies in our laboratory and have come to the following conclusions.
  • (16) Since the pH on oral mucosal surfaces where odor formation occurs is largely determined by the fermentative and putrefactive activities of the adhering bacteria, these acid-base processes are necessarily of major regulatory importance.
  • (17) The flesh rolled away like blancmange, soft and gassy with putrefaction.
  • (18) Although this intravascular hemolysis resembled that which develops during putrefaction, in this case it was thought to be due to pooling and freezing of blood in subcutaneous vessels.
  • (19) The present work deals with the factors affecting ABO grouping of dry blood stains in Riyad, including exposure to extremes of temperature, from refrigeration at -4 degrees C up to heating at 150 degrees C, effect of time till 6 months, occurrence of the stains on different fabrics, and effect of putrefaction.
  • (20) Earlier we heard another example of pure party-political putrefaction.

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