Dry-gangrene
noun
1.
death of tissue owing to arterial obstruction without subsequent bacterial decomposition and putrefaction.
dry gangrene n.
Gangrene that develops as a result of arterial obstruction and is characterized by mummification of the dead tissue and absence of bacterial decomposition. Also called mummification.
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