Gangrene

Gangrene

Necrosis or tissue death, usually due to inadequate or absent blood supply.

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Category: Cardiac supplies
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gangrene

Health care; Diseases; Orthopedics

The death of body tissue due to the loss of blood supply to that tissue, sometimes permitting bacteria to invade it and accelerate its decay.

gangrene

Health care; Orthopedics

The death of body tissue due to the loss of blood supply to that tissue, sometimes permitting bacteria to invade it and accelerate its decay.

gangrene

Health care; Diabetes treatment

The death of body tissue, most often caused by a lack of blood flow and infection. Gangrene can lead to amputation.

gangrene

Science; General science

A form of tissue death, or necrosis, usually occurring in an extremity and due to insufficient blood supply.

gangrene

Health care; General

The decay of body tissue in a part of the body where the blood supply is obstructed by injury or disease.

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Biotechnology; Health care; Life Sciences; Medical; Biochemistry; Biofuel; Biomedical; Behavioral science

"a manual usually accompanying a technical device and explaining how to install or operate it" Essential Requirements - Medical Device Directive 93/42/EEC - Annex I, 13.1: Each ...

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scar

Medical devices; Cardiac supplies

An area of tissue that has healed after tissue destruction has occurred. It is electrically inactive. Electrically inactive tissue cannot transmit electrical signals.

sensing

Medical devices; Cardiac supplies

The monitoring function of an implanted pacemaker or defibrillator system that allows the device to detect the heart's natural electrical activity.

sensor

Medical devices; Cardiac supplies

The part of an implanted system that detects the body's need for a different heart rate. The system uses sensor information to provide the proper heart rate.

septum

Medical devices; Cardiac supplies

The muscular wall that separates the left and right sides of the heart.

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