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Grammar : Adj
Spell : uhl-ser-uh s
Phonetic Transcription : ˈʌl sər əs



Définition of ulcerous

Origin :
  • 1570s, from Latin ulcerosus, from ulcer (see ulcer).
  • adj ulcerative
Example sentences :
  • Slowly one of the priests approached the portrait and put out an ulcerous hand to touch the face.
  • Extract from : « The Portal of Dreams » by Charles Neville Buck
  • She was told that the saint's name was Roch and that he had miraculously cured her little boy of an ulcerous leg.
  • Extract from : « Rich Relatives » by Compton Mackenzie
  • The subsequent progress of unarrested mercurial stomatitis is that of ulcerous stomatitis.
  • Extract from : « A System of Practical Medicine By American Authors, Vol. II » by Various
  • The local lesions, be they pustular or ulcerous, heal without cicatrices.
  • Extract from : « A System of Practical Medicine By American Authors, Vol. II » by Various
  • Signs: Great, ulcerous, wartlike, blood-filled blisters that grew rapidly over the body.
  • Extract from : « Despoilers of the Golden Empire » by Gordon Randall Garrett
  • The universal desire was to skin and film the ulcerous place with adulation and hypocrisy.
  • Extract from : « Darkness and Dawn » by Frederic W. Farrar
  • Tulan stared at the ulcerous image on the screen, built up by infra-red probing through the opaque atmosphere.
  • Extract from : « Tulan » by Carroll Mather Capps
  • There is, in fact, a terrible confusion hidden in the New Morality, an ulcerous evil that is ever working inward.
  • Extract from : « The Unpopular Review Vol. I » by Various
  • The fly that will fall on none but the galled, ulcerous place, doth feed accordingly.
  • Extract from : « A Christian Directory (Part 4 of 4) » by Richard Baxter
  • The extract is used as a gargle, wash for ulcerous eruptions and taken internally in tubercular meningitis.
  • Extract from : « Birds and Nature Vol. 11 No. 3 [March 1902] » by Various

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