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ulcerous
Part of speech: AdjectiveAffected with an ulcer or with ulcers; having the nature of an ulcer; discharging pus or matter.
Usage examples "ulcerous":- He had frequently a short cough and a very extraordinary elevation of his chest in fetching his breath, on which occasions an ulcerous matter generally issued from his fundament. - "Trial-of-Mary-Blandy", Roughead, William.
- Were there not women whose lives are passed in engendering and transmitting the direst of all the diseases human evil has bred, the hapless imbecile and paralytic, the blind, the deaf, the ulcerous, the slowly- wasting, tortured little ones who fill our asylums and hospitals would not be. - "Feminism and Sex-Extinction", Arabella Kenealy.
- The beggars who have been chasing the carriage, the cripples outstripping the rest, thrust withered arms, ulcerous legs, and all manner of profitable deformities into our very faces as we alight, even clutching at the coins with which we pay the coachman. - "Spanish Highways and Byways", Katharine Lee Bates.