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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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..
Fontanel :: Fontanel (n.) An issue or artificial ulcer for the discharge of humors from the body.
Canker :: Canker (n.) A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; -- called also water canker, canker of the mouth, and noma..
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..
Sanies :: Sanies (n.) A thin, serous fluid commonly discharged from ulcers or foul wounds..
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..
Exulcerate :: Exulcerate (v. t. & i.) To corrode; to fret; to chafe; to inflame.
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..
Digest :: Digest (v. i.) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer..
Virus :: Virus (v. i.) Contagious or poisonous matter, as of specific ulcers, the bite of snakes, etc.; -- applied to organic poisons..
Sanious :: Sanious (a.) Discharging sanies; as, a sanious ulcer..
Chilblain :: Chilblain (n.) A blain, sore, or inflammatory swelling, produced by exposure of the feet or hands to cold, and attended by itching, pain, and sometimes ulceration..
Exulcerate :: Exulcerate (v. t. & i.) To ulcerate.
Ulcerating :: Ulcerating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ulcerat.
Probe :: Probe (v. t.) To examine, as a wound, an ulcer, or some cavity of the body, with a probe..
Fossette :: Fossette (n.) A small, deep-centered ulcer of the transparent cornea..
Run :: Run (a.) To discharge pus or other matter; as, an ulcer runs..
Noli-me-tangere :: Noli-me-tangere (n.) A name formerly applied to several varieties of ulcerous cutaneous diseases, but now restricted to Lupus exedens, an ulcerative affection of the nose..
Kibe :: Kibe (n.) A chap or crack in the flesh occasioned by cold; an ulcerated chilblain.
Malign :: Malign (a.) Malignant; as, a malign ulcer..
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