ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.]
1. Path. Mortified, gangrened.
attrib. 1612. Woodall, Surg. Mate, Wks. (1653), 387. They used to take off the Sphacelated member.
1738. Phil. Trans., XL. 9. A separation of the sphacelated sluff.
1783. Bentley, in Med. Comm., I. 258. The sphacelated parts were dressed.
1800. Med. Jrnl., IV. 167. The greater portion of the surface … was in a sphacelated state.
1877. F. T. Roberts, Handbk. Med. (ed. 3), I. 393. The sphacelated portion is expelled.
pred. 1668. Culpepper & Cole, Barthol. Anat., 374. The lower part of the Arm was gangrenated and sphacelated.
1712. Phil. Trans., XXVII. 513. The Liver was intirely sphacelated.
1782. W. Heberden, Comment., xvi. (1806), 85. The pelvis was sphacelated.
1859. Semple, Diphtheria, 11. All the soft parts … appeared deeply sphacelated.
2. Bot. Withered, dead.
1806. J. Galpine, Brit. Bot., § 409. [Leaves] somewhat sphacelated at the apex.
1821. W. P. C. Barton, Flora N. Amer., I. 125. Root … invested at the bottom and upper part with a sphacelated, brownish-black tunic.
