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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 mucous membrane which lines the bony wall of the middle ear has the function of the periosteum, and therefore, when inflamed and subjected to pressure, is liable to ulcerate.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

It forms an indolent swelling, which tends to break down slowly and to ulcerate.

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

Another woman with severely ulcerated legs had been told her legs would have to be amputated - but the diary recorded that she was cured by a herbal remedy.

From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2023

While most people infected with mpox show lesions only at the site of exposure, those with advanced H.I.V. developed large, ulcerated lesions teeming with virus throughout the body.

From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2023

While Vitale said in a statement that the rest has helped, he will need surgery to treat the ulcerated lesions on his vocal cords.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2022

Over time, she developed pain from an ulcerated disk.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 23, 2021

His ulcerated tooth, at least, had improved, and he was no longer confined to bed.

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

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

And many think the mamba brings more suffering, what with the ulcerating and all.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman