Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Necrosis; the process of becoming or making gangrenous; mortification.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) The process of becoming or making gangrenous; mortification.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine The process of becoming or making
gangrenous ;mortification .
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My view I think explains their uniformly brown colour -- analogous to Brown's sphacelation in mutatis mutandis.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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Its chief sources of revenue have been fake voting contests and unclean "ads." that range in sphacelation from abortion pills to garters for prostitutes.
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