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Phagedena, Phaged�na, faj-e-dē′na, n. a sloughing ulcer, hospital gangrene.—adjs.

He taught, though this is a bit of knowledge supposed to come three centuries later into medicine and history, the true origin of chancre and phagedena.

Its primary symptoms are, a simple ulcer without induration, without elevated edges, and without phagedena.

In the twelfth volume of the “Transactions” of the same society he finds the record of the case of a soldier who lost his penis through gangrene induced by syphilitic phagedena.

In the first volume of the Journal of Venereal and Cutaneous Diseases the writer reported a case of the complete loss of penis in a young man as a result of phagedena due to syphilis.