ulcerate

Example Sentences

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The improvement didn't last long though, as the cornea began to cloud and ulcerate.

From BBC • Jun. 13, 2015

It's just big happy crowds of harmless arty people expressing themselves and breaking a few pointless shibboleths that only serve to ulcerate young people anyway.

From Time Magazine Archive

The prison press must publish under conditions that would ulcerate an editor on the outside.

From Time Magazine Archive

Should the wound not readily heal, but ulcerate, it may be bathed with alum-water.

From Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Jennings, Robert

As it increases in size it spreads over the alveoli of several teeth, becomes softer, and assumes a dark violet colour, and if subjected to pressure or irritation may ulcerate and bleed.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander