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Farcy :: Farcy (n.) A contagious disease of horses, associated with painful ulcerating enlargements, esp. upon the head and limbs. It is of the same nature as glanders, and is often fatal. Called also farcin, and farcimen..

Digestive :: Digestive (n.) A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration..

Kibe :: Kibe (n.) A chap or crack in the flesh occasioned by cold; an ulcerated chilblain.

Cancer :: Cancer (n.) Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so called, perhaps, from the great veins which surround it, compared by the ancients to the claws of a crab. The term is now restricted to such a growth made up of aggregations of epithelial cells, either without support or embedded in the meshes of a trabecular framework..

Virus :: Virus (v. i.) Contagious or poisonous matter, as of specific ulcers, the bite of snakes, etc.; -- applied to organic poisons..

Efflux :: Efflux (n.) The act or process of flowing out, or issuing forth; effusion; outflow; as, the efflux of matter from an ulcer; the efflux of men's piety..

Cacoethes :: Cacoethes (n.) A bad quality or disposition in a disease; an incurable ulcer.

Probe :: Probe (n.) An instrument for examining the depth or other circumstances of a wound, ulcer, or cavity, or the direction of a sinus, of for exploring for bullets, for stones in the bladder, etc..

Ulcerate :: Ulcerate (v. i.) To be formed into an ulcer; to become ulcerous.

Peyer''s Glands :: Peyer's glands () Patches of lymphoid nodules, in the walls of the small intestiness; agminated glands; -- called also Peyer's patches. In typhoid fever they become the seat of ulcers which are regarded as the characteristic organic lesion of that disease..

Chancre :: Chancre (n.) A venereal sore or ulcer; specifically, the initial lesion of true syphilis, whether forming a distinct ulcer or not; -- called also hard chancre, indurated chancre, and Hunterian chancre..

Exulcerate :: Exulcerate (v. t. & i.) To ulcerate.

Ulcered :: Ulcered (a.) Ulcerous; ulcerated.

Dysentery :: Dysentery (n.) A disease attended with inflammation and ulceration of the colon and rectum, and characterized by griping pains, constant desire to evacuate the bowels, and the discharge of mucus and blood..

Run :: Run (a.) To discharge pus or other matter; as, an ulcer runs..

Aegilops :: Aegilops (n.) An ulcer or fistula in the inner corner of the eye.

Exulceration :: Exulceration (n.) Ulceration.

Pledget :: Pledget (n.) A compress, or small flat tent of lint, laid over a wound, ulcer, or the like, to exclude air, retain dressings, or absorb the matter discharged..

Caries :: Caries (n.) Ulceration of bone; a process in which bone disintegrates and is carried away piecemeal, as distinguished from necrosis, in which it dies in masses..

Putrefy :: Putrefy (v. t.) To make morbid, carious, or gangrenous; as, to putrefy an ulcer or wound..

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