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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
ulcerate .
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Examples
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The 30-year-old Wyoming woman suffers from Behcet's disease, an autoimmune condition that inflames the joints and ulcerates the skin, eyes and genitals.
Bitter Pill 2008
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But unmixed hydromel, rather than the diluted, produces frothy evacuations, such as are unseasonably and intensely bilious, and too hot; but such an evacuation occasions other great mischiefs, for it neither extinguishes the heat in the hypochondria, but rouses it, induces inquietude, and jactitation of the limbs, and ulcerates the intestines and anus.
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A caustic poison is one that burns or ulcerates the esophagus when swallowed.
The Last Chance Dog D.V.M. Donna Kelleher 2003
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A caustic poison is one that burns or ulcerates the esophagus when swallowed.
The Last Chance Dog D.V.M. Donna Kelleher 2003
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In process of time the part ulcerates, a discharge of fetid ichorous matter issues from it; sometimes it bleeds freely, and there is a burning pain in the part.
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Any little lump which ulcerates located on the genitals must be regarded with suspicion.
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Habitual use of alcohol permanently dilates the blood vessels; thickens and hardens the membranes; in some cases, ulcerates the surface; and, finally, "so weakens the assimilation that the proper supply of food can not be appropriated."
Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics Joel Dorman Steele
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A peculiarly fatal accident in this connection is that in which a foreign body in the esophagus ulcerates, and penetrates one of the neighboring major vessels.
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A peculiarly fatal accident in this connection is that in which a foreign body in the esophagus ulcerates, and penetrates one of the neighboring major vessels.
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The swelling gradually softens and ulcerates, and a sequestrum may separate and leave a perforation in the palate (Fig. 246).
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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