gas phlegmon

Questions about gas phlegmon

What does gas phlegmon mean?

gas phlegmon means "(pathology) a deadly form of gangrene usually caused by clostridium bacteria that produce toxins that cause tissue death; can be used as a bioweapon".

What is another word for gas phlegmon?

Close synonyms include gas gangrene, clostridial myonecrosis, emphysematous gangrene, emphysematous phlegmon, gangrenous emphysema. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gas phlegmon a common word?

gas phlegmon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.