| 词汇 | green rot |
| 词源 | green rot. Descriptive American slang from Civil War times that is a synonym for gangrene, as is mortification. Green rot is so-called because the skin is first pale but becomes red or bronze and finally is green in color. It was common on the battlefields. |
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