flesh-eating
5
7.5
- adjective
- /flɛʃˈiːtɪŋ/
- NSFW
:
necrosante
- Asia is a big fan of taking the hard work out of getting rid of dead skin, and at Crown Lotus Spa, in China's Hawaii of the East, you can let a school of flesh-eating Garra Rufa fish nibble calluses away.
- flesh-eating bacteria
- flesh-eating disease
- flesh-eating infection
Examples
-
Meanwhile, a few hundred kilometers to the north in Friesland, a comet has crashed into a field and is slowly transforming the Friesian people into a vast army of flesh-eating zombies...
Blog text (11) -
There was a story in which several media outlets latched onto a local rumor about flesh-eating bacteria and broadcast it to the public without bothering to consult the health department.
Academic text (2005) -
Apparently, there was some sort of flesh-eating bacteria in the water.
Fiction book (2001) -
Researchers call for early diagnosis of flesh-eating infections.
Blog text (15) -
An hour later, they went body-surfing in the ocean, having conveniently forgotten that one week before, the water was filled with flesh-eating bacteria.
Fiction book (2001) -
This bacterium is also a flesh-eating organism, which can produce major disfigurement in those who survive infection.
Academic text (2005) -
But I got a call this morning, on the flight, that he's in the hospital with, uh... fucking, he's got, like, flesh-eating bacteria on his leg.
-
In the past six months, we’ve had people on bath salts, which turn them into these things with incredible strength and resistance, who run around trying to eat people, and a few different people who have had to have limbs cut off because they got a flesh-eating virus.
Blog text (11) -
The patient was diagnosed with a severe case of flesh-eating bacteria that required immediate surgical intervention.
-
Doctors warned that the flesh-eating infection could spread rapidly if not treated promptly.
Antonyms
How Destructive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The phrase flesh-eating is used in medicine because the infection seems to eat the flesh ('body tissue'), causing quick damage and death of the tissue, so calling it 'flesh-eating' shows how fast the disease destroys the body.