What's the difference between gangrenous and putrefy?

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.

Putrefy


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To render putrid; to cause to decay offensively; to cause to be decomposed; to cause to rot.
  • (v. t.) To corrupt; to make foul.
  • (v. t.) To make morbid, carious, or gangrenous; as, to putrefy an ulcer or wound.
  • (v. i.) To become putrid; to decay offensively; to rot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Eighty-five blood samples with COHb concentrations of 40% and 70% were allowed to putrefy in order to measure the time-dependent changes in COHb values.
  • (2) Toxicological analyses on a putrefied cadaver are sometimes difficult to perform because of the absence of blood and urine.
  • (3) To their left, the killers entered the room of the centre's director, who made it outside, where the pond of his blood putrefied on the cement.
  • (4) Mass graves commonly contain hundreds of putrefying bodies, which bear evidence of torture and extrajudicial execution.
  • (5) Bromazepam and levomepromazine were identified and assayed in the remains of cerebral tissue, in the clavicle of a putrefied cadaver, and in the fly larvae found on and in the corpse.
  • (6) For centuries, the Sioux and other tribes used it to treat venomous snake and insect bites, ulcers, sores and any disease (notably syphilis) involving foul-smelling discharges or putrefying flesh.
  • (7) Toxicological analyses on a putrefied cadaver are sometimes difficult to achieve because of the absence of blood and urine.
  • (8) When the blood was putrefied, two or three pieces of membranes filters were needed because of choking membrane pore.
  • (9) The evidentiary specimens chosen for DNA were classified according to substrate (scrapings, plastic bags, synthetics, denim, and carpet) and according to a subjective evaluation of the condition of the stain (soiled, damp, or putrefied) and to its size (small or large).
  • (10) This method was found to be useful even if applied to old or putrefied blood samples.
  • (11) The method used would seem to be very useful for determination of methamphetamine and amphetamine in marked putrefied biological materials.
  • (12) A forensic study was performed on the toxicological effects of triazolam using putrefied tissues.
  • (13) In case of putrefied liver lipid content is increased slightly but in all periods of putrefaction lipid content in the liver in case of fat dystrophy remains significantly higher than in controls.
  • (14) In this study, morphine and phenobarbital were simultaneously identified and assayed in several tissues of a putrefied cadaver and in the fly larvae of Calliphoridae found on the corpse.
  • (15) Finding a putrefying corpse in a lock-up might not feature on most people’s list of job satisfaction criteria, but things are different in Happy Valley (Tuesday, 9pm, BBC1) .
  • (16) Five drugs (triazolam, oxazepam, phenobarbital, alimemazine, and clomipramine) were identified and assayed in some tissues of a putrefied cadaver and in the maggots found on and in the body.
  • (17) No RFLP profiles could be obtained from putrefied soft tissues.
  • (18) Samples of thoracic fluid were obtained at regular intervals from the putrefying bodies of dead dogs.
  • (19) And that's how I picture you when I read your comments – as a shovelful-of-putrefied-matter-to-be making the very least of its brief window of consciousness.
  • (20) A reliable and sensitive method has been developed to assess the concentrations of the hypnotic drug triazolam in human tissues, including putrefied tissues.