Definition of "sphacelus" [‖Sphac•e•lus]

• Gangrenous part (noun)
• Gangrene; slough (noun)

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• "When the brain is attacked with sphacelus, the patients die in three days; or if they escape these, they recover."
• "But although men would give a great price to escape being deformed, yet at the same time they do not know how to take care, nor have resolution, if they do not experience pain, nor fear death, although the formation of callus in the nose speedily place, for the most part is consolidated in ten days, provided sphacelus do not take place."
• "When persons jumping from a height pitch on the heel, so as to occasion separation (diastasis) of the bones, ecchymosis of the veins, and contusion of the nerves; when these symptoms are very violent there is danger of sphacelus, and that the case may give trouble during life, for the bones are so constructed as to slip from one another, and the nerves communicate together."