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ulcer
Part of speech: NounA surface sore, often discharging matter; hence, anything corrupt.
Part of speech: Adjective Usage examples "ulcer":- This case leads me to caution my readers always to examine the parts carefully after the separation of the eschars, and if there be the slightest ulcer remaining to apply the caustic to it. - "An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of Certain Wounds and Ulcers", John Higginbottom.
- On the fourth following day, great part of the eschar had separated leaving the ulcer healed, and I had no occasion to see the patient again. - "An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of Certain Wounds and Ulcers", John Higginbottom.
- Now upon this occasion there came certain days after, a gentleman from the fields being father unto one of the pages of the said Lord ambassador, who was troubled with an ulcer in his legge of two years continuance, and craved of the said Lord some of his herbe, and using it in manner afore mentioned, he was healed by the end of ten or twelve daies. - "Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce", E. R. Billings.