Sphacelate
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Sphacelate is a verb meaning (transitive, medicine) To affect with gangrene, cause to gangrene, mortify.
Meaning
(transitive, medicine) To affect with gangrene, cause to gangrene, mortify.
More Meanings
- (intransitive, medicine) To become gangrenous.
- Affected with gangrene; gangrenous, necrotic.
- (botany) Dark and withered as though dead.
Word Forms
- sphacelates
- sphacelating
- sphacelated
Synonyms for sphacelate
Depending on context, synonyms include mortify, gangrene, necrose.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include gangrene, necrose, mortify, autosplenectomize, cyanose, lesionalize.
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