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ulcerate

[uhl-suh-reyt] / ˈʌl səˌreɪt /


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

From BBC Jun. 13, 2015

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 lip is protruded, the mucous membrane everted, and, when the lower lip is implicated, it becomes pendulous and is liable to ulcerate.

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

No. Gummata grow more rapidly, are usually painful to the touch, are not freely movable, and tend to break down and ulcerate.

From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Stelwagon, Henry Weightman

He suffered dysentery, beriberi, ulcerated skin and repeated bouts of malaria.

From BBC Feb. 3, 2024

The fish had ulcerated skin and internal hemorrhages; sometimes ponds full of fish were wiped out.

From Science Magazine Mar. 4, 2020

In 1846, Boston dentist William Morton used ether as an anesthetic for the first time as he extracted an ulcerated tooth from merchant Eben Frost.

From Washington Times Sep. 30, 2018

A woman with a prolapse, a thyroid condition, an enlarged heart, an ulcerated leg that never healed, and two sets of false teeth — matte for everyday, and a pearlized set for ‘best.’

From New York Times Mar. 8, 2012

A pair of captain’s bars ulcerated with rust hung on the man’s ragged shirt collar.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

But the sores that worried the vets were actually tumors that were ulcerating and rotting away under assault by T-cells.

From New York Times Jul. 30, 2016

But the ulcerating guilt captured in that brutal couplet calls to mind something else that Kipling did: pull strings to get John a commission, after John had twice been rejected on account of weak eyesight.

From The New Yorker Sep. 25, 2015

But fewer could name the disease spread by those pesky sandflies: The ulcerating skin infection called leishmaniasis.

From Seattle Times Apr. 25, 2011

Just three hilarious, incisive episodes later, it was all over – quietly discharged from the schedules, leaving an almost perceptible stench of soiled sheets, rising bile and ulcerating despair.

From The Guardian Oct. 18, 2010

By April 21 Olmsted was again confined to bed “with sore throat, an ulcerating tooth, and much pain preventing sleep.”

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson




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