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ulcer

noun as in an internal or external sore

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noun as in inflammatory condition

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Some studies have found that excess salt brings on ulcers, infections, and may even hasten stomach cancer.

Melioidosis infections can present like an infected wound, with swelling or ulcers at the exposure site, but they can also occur in the lungs, the bloodstream or widely spread throughout the body.

Three months after they appeared, the ulcers completely cleared up, leaving Gaither to wonder what really caused them.

A lot of times people equate their abdominal pain with having an ulcer.

But, experts said, the belief that certain foods and carbonated or acidic beverages can cause or worsen ulcers is a common misconception.

Indeed, Rep. Paul Ryan may talk a good game about the poor, but his policies still give social-justice advocates an ulcer.

The doctors suspected a heart issue or an ulcer and recommended he follow up with his regular physician.

Talk about a Super Tuesday designed to give all parties involved a massive ulcer.

Buffered and enteric-coated aspirin do not eliminate the risk of developing an ulcer.

Except in gastric ulcer, the danger lies in the retching produced, and the tube can safely be used if the patient takes it easily.

When found in the fluid removed after a test-meal, it commonly points toward ulcer or carcinoma.

Recognition of occult hemorrhage has its greatest value in diagnosis of gastric cancer and ulcer.

And among others, Sir J. Denham he told me he had cured, after it was come to an ulcer all over his face, to a miracle.

It chanced one day, when he was fifteen, he went into the woods, and the ulcer pained him.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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