Crossword clues for ulcerate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ulcerate \Ul"cer*ate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Ulcerated; p. pr. & vb. n. Ulcerating.] [L. ulceratus, p. p. of ulcerare, fr. ulcus ulcer.] To be formed into an ulcer; to become ulcerous.
Ulcerate \Ul"cer*ate\, v. t.
To affect with, or as with, an ulcer or ulcers.
--Harvey.
Wiktionary
(context palynology of a pollen grain English) Having an ulcus, a rounded pore-like aperture, at one or both poles. v
1 (context medicine transitive English) To cause an ulcer to develop. 2 (context medicine intransitive English) To become ulcerous.
WordNet
v. undergo ulceration; "Her stomach ulcerated"
affect with an ulcer; "Her stomach was ulcerated"
Wikipedia
Ulcerate is a New Zealand-based technical death metal band formed by guitarist Michael Hoggard and drummer Jamie Saint Merat in 2000. The band have released four studio albums to date, with their fifth full-length album 'Shrines of Paralysis' slated a Fall 2016 release through Relapse Records. The band have been featured in numerous articles as one of New Zealand's most prominent extreme metal acts, and have been compared favourably to bands such as Neurosis and Gorguts.
Usage examples of "ulcerate".
Desgranges gives a case of a fish-spine in the abdominal cavity, and ten years afterward it ulcerated through an abscess in the abdominal wall.
It not only cleanses, purifies, regulates, and builds up the system to a healthy standard, and conquers throat, bronchial, and lung complications, when any such exist, but, from its specific effects upon the lining membrane of the nasal passages, it aids materially in restoring the diseased, thickened, or ulcerated membrane to a healthy condition, and thus eradicates the disease.
It is true that such strong, irritating, and drying preparations will many times suddenly arrest the discharge from the nose, but the thickened or ulcerated condition of the lining mucous membrane, which really constitutes the disease, is not removed by such treatment, and the discharge soon comes on again.
The fact already stated, that a form of moist gangrene, resembling hospital gangrene, was quite common in this foul atmosphere, in cases of dysentery, both with and without the existence of the disease upon the entire surface, not only demonstrates the dependence of the disease upon the state of the constitution, but proves in the clearest manner that neither the contact of the poisonous matter of gangrene, nor the direct action of the poisonous atmosphere upon the ulcerated surfaces is necessary to the development of the disease.
His whole body spasmed, as if he were being shocked, and his face became a terrible rictus, his ulcerated eye staring upward.
She looked at him, his ulcerated eye half-open, his face swollen and blackened under the stubble of his beard.
The other was a male with eroded three-cusp molars, callused foot pads and chipped claws, and ulcerated patches where his elbows and knees and shoulder bones had abraded against rock.
When it is thrown off, it sometimes leaves a foul, ulcerating surface beneath.
The meningioma was on the right side of her face, extending from the bridge of her nose and over the cheek, forming a bulbous purple mass, punctuated by scars where it had ulcerated over the years.
For open cancers an ointment is made from the leaves and stems wherewith to dress the ulcerated parts, and at the same time the expressed juice of the plant is given internally.
It was maybe two and a half inches thick, lots of tumor mass, and it was breaking down and ulcerating.
Still nothing as Mrs Murphy came in, her hem sagging, her coat smelling of bonfires, her legs still ulcerating but according to the notes this was now due in the main to hardening of the arteries.
She gave a small shudder, closing her eyes at the memory of the elderly gentleman whose ulcerated heel I had debrided the day before.
As a wash it is good for spongy gums, ulcerated throat and aphthous stomatitis, and the tincture is also applied to foul and indolentulcers.
Not that he ever asked me, but I found myself looping his bus route every morning till he picked me up, or I'd be eating at Bojangle's when he came in to throw cajun chicken down into his ulcerated organs.