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duodenal ulcer

n. (context pathology English) A peptic ulcer located in the duodenum.

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duodenal ulcer

n. a peptic ulcer of the duodenum

Usage examples of "duodenal ulcer".

Thinking about the UN made his stomach rumble, and his onetime duodenal ulcer began to burn way down in his left side, almost at the groin.

An infuriated Bolivian policeman is supposed to have admitted that before he could stop himself he found he was telling the Jampot about his own trouble with a duodenal ulcer.

For example, a typical discussion about a case of stress duodenal ulcer might have the visit first asking the anatomy of the four parts of the duode­.

The X-rays would confirm or deny the suspicion that flourishing in the Bladwick interior was a duodenal ulcer.

The glossy color enlargement showed a duodenal ulcer as large as the planet Jupiter.

As McAllister's luck would have it, a visiting party official from Peking had been admitted to the Kiang Wu Hospital with a bleeding duodenal ulcer.

I had a duodenal ulcer and suffered horribly from it from the age of twenty-nine to the age of fifty-eight, when I finally had a partial gastroectomyjust a few years before it was discovered that ulcers were microbial in nature and could be treated by antibiotics.

If, for example, he is a forty-year-old middle manager with two teen-age sons, two surviving parents or in-laws, and an incipient duodenal ulcer, he can assume that within half a decade his boys will be off to college or living away on their own.

I performed a Polyagastrectomy for a duodenal ulcer causing pyloric stenosis, following which he was able to carry out his duties in a more decorous fashion - I am, etc.