Path. [f. SPHACELATE v.] The fact or process of becoming mortified; the formation of a sphacelus.
1657. Physical Dict., Sphacelus, deadness of any part. Sphacelation, the same as before.
1665. Boyle, New Exper. Cold, vi. 204. The Gangrænes and Sphacelations that often rob living men of frozen Toes.
1718. Quincy, Compl. Disp., 138. The Insensibility which sometimes the Opium induces, so as to endanger a Sphacelation.
1771. D. Lysons, Ess. Camphire, 10. Against such violent internal inflammations as are productive of sphacelation.
1826. S. Cooper, First Lines Surg. (ed. 5), 44. Both during the extension of the disorder, and … when the sphacelation has stopped.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., IV. 128. The mass of ulceration and sphacelation in which … the vessels are often involved.
