hospital gangrene

noun

Pathology. a contagious, often fatal gangrene, especially involving amputation stumps and war wounds, occurring usually in crowded, ill-kept hospitals, and caused by putrefactive bacteria.

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1805–15

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Our of the hospital walls as dire;
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