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Ulceration   /ˌəlsərˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Ulceration

noun
1.
A circumscribed inflammatory and often suppurating lesion on the skin or an internal mucous surface resulting in necrosis of tissue.  Synonym: ulcer.
2.
The process of ulcer formation; the process of becoming ulcerated.



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"Ulceration" Quotes from Famous Books



... prepuce, due to either inflammation or to the irritative action of the sebaceous matter underneath the prepuce, the acrid nature of these secretions being at times sufficiently virulent to produce an ulceration, even ...
— History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present - Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance • Peter Charles Remondino
... "The impoverished condition of the blood, dependent on long use of improper diet, exposure to wet and cold, and want of sufficient clothing and rest, had become evident." "Scurvy, diarrhoea, frost-bite, and ulceration of ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 60, October 1862 • Various
... straight before him, while the girl, swept on by her ignoble rage, displayed still more of the moral ulceration which had been injected into ...
— Other Main-Travelled Roads • Hamlin Garland


Words linked to "Ulceration" :   pressure sore, ulcerate, lesion, noma, noli-me-tangere, chancroid, organic process, decubitus ulcer, peptic ulceration, aphthous ulcer, canker, biological process, canker sore, bedsore, ulcer, peptic ulcer


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