Definition of ulcer

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Ulcer (n.) Fig.: Anything that festers and corrupts like an open sore; a vice in character.

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Sore :: Sore (a.) A place in an animal body where the skin and flesh are ruptured or bruised, so as to be tender or painful; a painful or diseased place, such as an ulcer or a boil..
Ancome :: Ancome (n.) A small ulcerous swelling, coming suddenly; also, a whitlow..
Sibbens :: Sibbens (n.) A contagious disease, endemic in Scotland, resembling the yaws. It is marked by ulceration of the throat and nose and by pustules and soft fungous excrescences upon the surface of the body. In the Orkneys the name is applied to the itch..
Digest :: Digest (v. t.) To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound..
Cacoethes :: Cacoethes (n.) A bad quality or disposition in a disease; an incurable ulcer.
Exulceration :: Exulceration (n.) A fretting; a festering; soreness.
Exulcerative :: Exulcerative (a.) Tending to cause ulcers; exulceratory.
Helcoplasty :: Helcoplasty (n.) The act or process of repairing lesions made by ulcers, especially by a plastic operation..
Ulcer :: Ulcer (n.) Fig.: Anything that festers and corrupts like an open sore; a vice in character.
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..
Dartars :: Dartars (n.) A kind of scab or ulceration on the skin of lambs.
Ulcerated :: Ulcerated (imp. & p. p.) of Ulcerat.
Scar :: Scar (n.) A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal, made by a wound or ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is healed; a cicatrix; a mark left by a previous injury; a blemish; a disfigurement..
Ulcerous :: Ulcerous (a.) Having the nature or character of an ulcer; discharging purulent or other matter.
Thrush :: Thrush (n.) An affection of the mouth, fauces, etc., common in newly born children, characterized by minute ulcers called aphthae. See Aphthae..
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..
Issue :: Issue (n.) An artificial ulcer, usually made in the fleshy part of the arm or leg, to produce the secretion and discharge of pus for the relief of some affected part..
Exulceratory :: Exulceratory (a.) Having a tendency to form ulcers; rendering ulcerous.
Ulcerable :: Ulcerable (a.) Capable of ulcerating.
Sanious :: Sanious (a.) Pertaining to sanies, or partaking of its nature and appearance; thin and serous, with a slight bloody tinge; as, the sanious matter of an ulcer..
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