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gangrena
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1º_ It is the organic tissue that due to an infection or lack of irrigation enters a state of putrefaction. It has an origin in the Greek word 947; 945; 947; 947; 961; 945; 953; 957; 945; ( gángraina ) that came to Latin as gangraena, to then pass to Spanish with the same meaning in all cases, which is also used figuratively as the corrosion or progressive destruction of something. 2º_ Inflection of the verb gangrene. See verbs/gangrene .

  



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