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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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..
Dartars :: Dartars (n.) A kind of scab or ulceration on the skin of lambs.
Sarcocolla :: Sarcocolla (n.) A gum resin obtained from certain shrubs of Africa (Penaea), -- formerly thought to cause healing of wounds and ulcers..
Ulceration :: Ulceration (n.) The process of forming an ulcer, or of becoming ulcerous; the state of being ulcerated; also, an ulcer..
Ulcer :: Ulcer (n.) Fig.: Anything that festers and corrupts like an open sore; a vice in character.
Ulcerative :: Ulcerative (a.) Of or pertaining to ulcers; as, an ulcerative process..
Fontanel :: Fontanel (n.) An issue or artificial ulcer for the discharge of humors from the body.
Run :: Run (a.) To discharge pus or other matter; as, an ulcer runs..
Ulcerous :: Ulcerous (a.) Affected with an ulcer or ulcers; ulcerated.
Ulcer :: Ulcer (v. t.) To ulcerate.
Sanious :: Sanious (a.) Discharging sanies; as, a sanious ulcer..
Detergent :: Detergent (n.) A substance which cleanses the skin, as water or soap; a medicine to cleanse wounds, ulcers, etc..
Digestive :: Digestive (n.) A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration..
Rodent :: Rodent (v. t.) Gnawing; biting; corroding; (Med.) applied to a destructive variety of cancer or ulcer.
Ulcered :: Ulcered (a.) Ulcerous; ulcerated.
Encauma :: Encauma (n.) An ulcer in the eye, upon the cornea, which causes the loss of the humors..
Catapasm :: Catapasm (n.) A compound medicinal powder, used by the ancients to sprinkle on ulcers, to absorb perspiration, etc..
Crapaudine :: Crapaudine (n.) An ulcer on the coronet of a horse.
Deterge :: Deterge (v. t.) To cleanse; to purge away, as foul or offending matter from the body, or from an ulcer..
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..
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