Ulcer

Definition: Ulcer

Ulcer

Noun

1. A circumscribed inflammatory and often suppurating lesion on the skin or an internal mucous surface resulting in necrosis of tissue.

Date "ulcer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Etymology: Ulcer \Ul"cer\, noun. [French ulc[`e]re, Latin ulcus, gen. ulceris, akin to Greek.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Dream Interpretation	To see an ulcer in your dream, signifies loss of friends and removal from loved ones. Affairs will remain unsatisfactory. To dream that you have ulcers, denotes that you will become unpopular with your friends by giving yourself up to foolish pleasures. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Health	A lesion on the surface of the skin or a mucous surface, produced by the sloughing of inflammatory necrotic tissue. (references)
Medicine	A localized necrotic lesion of the skin or a mucous surface. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

An ulcer is an open sore caused by bacterial infection of the skin or mucous membrane.

Specific types:

gastric ulcer
mouth ulcer

Synonym: Ulcer

Synonym: ulceration (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Disease	Sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boil; pimple, wen; (swelling); carbuncle, gathering, imposthume, peccant humor, issue; rot, canker, cold sore, fever sore; cancer, carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease, malignancy, tumor; caries, mortification, corruption, gangrene, sphacelus, sphacelation, leprosy; eruption, rash, breaking out.
Pain	Cancer, ulcer, sting, thorn; canker; (bane); scorpion; (evil doer); dagger; (arms); scourge; (instrument of punishment); carking care, canker worm of care.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	You see, I have this ulcer condition, and death is the worst thing for it. (Love and Death; writing credit: Woody Allen)
Movie/TV Titles	Showdown at Ulcer Gulch (1956)
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Domain	Title
References	The 2002 Official Patient's Sourcebook on Peptic Ulcer (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Antacids in Peptic Ulcer Disease State of the Art (Perspectives in Digestive Disease Series) (reference) Peptic Ulcer & Its Drug Causation: The Role of Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (reference) Diagnosis and Management of Peptic Ulcer Disease (2nd Edition) (reference) Living With Your Ulcer (reference) Peptic ulcer disease : an update (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Skin ulcer due to leishmaniasis, hand of Central American adult. Credit: CDC.		Thumb with skin ulcer of tularemia. Credit: CDC.
	Histopathology of a typical flask-shaped ulcer of intestinal amebiasis. Kitten. Credit: CDC.		A patient with a typical syphilitic chancre located on lower lip. A chancre is a small, painless red ulcer that develops during primary syphilis. Primary syphilis is characterized by one or more chancres after inoculation with T. pallidum bacteria. Credit: CDC.
	This patient had developed a perforating ulcer of great toe resulting from tabes dorsalis, a form of neurosyphilis. This condition results from the destruction of the dorsal columns in the spinal cord, normally responsible for ones position sense. Credit: CDC.		H. ducreyi is the primary cause for a condition know as "Human Genital Ulcer Disease" or "Chancroid", especially in developing countries. The transmission of this bacterium and HIV has been epidemiologically linked. Credit: CDC.
	If You Sit Like This You May Get An Ulcer. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Paris combines in one wonderful type which has had real existence, and actually elbowed us, the Greek nudity, the Hebrew ulcer, the Gascon jest.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		They help reduce ulcer pain after a few weeks. (references)
		The stomach is often the site of ulcer disease. (references)
		The most common ulcer symptom is burning pain in the stomach. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Ulcer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ulcer" is used about 990 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	990	7,415

Expressions using "ulcer": Aden ulcer ♦ Aleppo ulcer ♦ aphthous ulcer ♦ cancerous ulcer ♦ chrome ulcer ♦ Cochin China ulcer ♦ Cold ulcer ♦ Corneal Ulcer ♦ Decubitus Ulcer ♦ Duodenal Ulcer ♦ Esophageal Ulcer ♦ Foot Ulcer ♦ gastric ulcer ♦ kissing ulcer ♦ Leg Ulcer ♦ malignant ulcer ♦ Mouth Ulcer ♦ Oral Ulcer ♦ Peptic Ulcer ♦ Peptic Ulcer Disease (PUD) ♦ Peptic Ulcer Hemorrhage ♦ Peptic Ulcer Perforation ♦ Perforated Ulcer ♦ perforating ulcer ♦ persian ulcer ♦ Skin ulcer ♦ Solitary Rectal Ulcer ♦ stomach ulcer ♦ Stress Ulcer ♦ tropical ulcer ♦ ulcer diet ♦ ulcer in the mouth ♦ ulcer peptic ♦ varicose ulcer ♦ ventricular ulcer ♦ weak ulcer. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "ulcer": ulcer-ridden.
	Ending with "ulcer": anti-ulcer, non-ulcer.
	Containing "ulcer": Anti-Ulcer Agents.
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Language		Translations for "ulcer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ulcerë (canker, sore). (various references)

Arabic		‏قرحة (slough, sore), ‏تقرح (ulcerate). (various references)

Bulgarian		язва (cancer, pit), зло (abuse, bad, cancer, curse, disaster, evil, harm, ill, mischief, wrong), поквара (corruption, debauchery, depravity, gangrene, infamy, obliquity, rot, ruin, taint). (various references)

Chinese		溃疡 (ulcerated, ulceration). (various references)

Czech		vřed (boil), žaludeèní vřed. (various references)

Danish		ulcus (ulcus). (various references)

Dutch		zweer (sore), ulcus. (various references)

Esperanto		ulcero (sore). (various references)

Faeroese		svullur (abscess, sore, tumor, tumour), sár (injury, sore, wound). (various references)

Farsi		قرحه دارکردن یاشدن , قرحه , زخم معده , ریش کردن , ریش (Barb, Beard, Sore, Ulcerous, Whisker). (various references)

Finnish		mätähaava (rankling sore), haavautuma (sore), haava (cut, gash, wound). (various references)

French		ulcère (ulcus). (various references)

Frisian		maachswolm (sore). (various references)

German		Geschwür (abscess, boil, sore, virus), Ulkus (ulcus). (various references)

Greek		έλκος. (various references)

Hebrew		אולקוס, כיב (canker). (various references)

Hungarian		fekély (abscess, chancre, fester, fistula, pustule). (various references)

Indonesian		luka bernanah, borok (bad, mangy). (various references)

Italian		ulcera (abscess, sore). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		潰瘍 , 出来物 (able man, abscess, boil, fine man, growth, pimple, rash, tumour). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		できもの (abscess, boil, growth, pimple, rash, tumour), でけもの (abscess, boil, growth, pimple, rash, tumour), かいよう (forgiveness, ocean). (various references)

Korean		궤양. (various references)

Manx		ching (disordered, ill, nauseated, painful, sore), askaid (boil, sea anemone, sea squirt). (various references)

Pig Latin		erulcay

Portuguese		úlcera (canker, fester, sore). (various references)

Romanian		ulcer (canker), patã (blemish, blot, blur, breath, dab, flaw, fleck, Mark, patch, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, spatter, spill, splash, splotch, spot, stain, stigma, taint, tarnish), defect (defect, deficiency, demerit, drawback, failing, fault, flaw, hole, imperfection, infelicity, lame, shortcoming, vice, want, weakness), bubã (abscess, boil, bruise, drawback, hindrance, puff, sorrow, swelling, trouble). (various references)

Russian		язва (canker, pest, sore), тж. зло. (various references)

Scottish		othar (abscess), neasgaid (boil). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		grizlica (canker), čir (blotch, canker, carbuncle). (various references)

Spanish		úlcera (bedsore, sore). (various references)

Sranan		soro (injury, sore, wound). (various references)

Swahili		kidonda (sore). (various references)

Swedish		varigt sår (fester), böld (abscess, boil, carbuncle, furuncle). (various references)

Turkish		yara (bruise, canker, cut, hurt, injury, lesion, raw, scotch, sore, trauma, wound), ahlâk bozukluğu (depravity), ülser (gastric ulcer, peptic ulcer). (various references)

Turkmen		peюehorda (sore). (various references)

Ukrainian		виразка (botch, canker). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	fistula, sanie, saniem, ulcera, ulcere, ulceribus, ulceris, ulcus, vomica. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "ulcer": ulcerate, ulcerated, ulcerates, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerations, ulcerative, ulcered, ulcering, ulcerogenic, ulcerous, ulcers. (additional references)
	Words ending with "ulcer": antiulcer. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Ulcer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alcar, Eclr, Elcar, hulce, Lucar, lucem, lucere, Mulcare, ocler, olcer, pulker, Uca, Ucar, ucl, ucli, ucre, uhler, Ukcccr, Ulc, ulca, ulcered, Ulci, ulcr, ulcus, ulder, ulec, Ulev, Ulke, Ulker, Ullmer, ulmeh, ulner, uloe, Ulseb, ulser, Umca, uncert. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "ulcer" (pronounced u"lser)
3	-l s er	pulsar.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: cruel, lucre.
	Words within the letters "c-e-l-r-u"
	-1 letter: clue, cure, curl, ecru, luce, lure, rule.
	-2 letters: cel, cue, cur, ecu, leu, rec, rue.
	-3 letters: el, er, re.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-l-r-u"
	+1 letter: colure, culler, culver, curdle, curled, curler, curlew, curule, cutler, lucern, lucres, reluct, ruckle, ulcers.
	+2 letters: auricle, blucher, buckler, careful, caulker, claquer, closure, cloture, cloured, clouter, clubber, clumber, clunker, cluster, clutter, colures, coruler, coulter, coupler, crudely, crueler, cruelly, cruelty, cruller, crumble, crumple, cuddler, cullers, culture, culvers, culvert, cupeler, curable, curdled, curdler, curdles, curlers, curlews, curlier, cutlers, cutlery, flueric, lacquer, lecture, lucarne, lucerne, lucerns, lucifer, luckier, luncher, lurched, lurcher, lurches, nuclear, plucker, recluse, recusal, relucts, ruckled, ruckles, scruple, sculker, sculler, secular, suckler, truckle, ulcered, unclear, utricle.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
ulcer	2,233	foot ulcer	45
stomach ulcer	975	throat ulcer	43
ulcer symptom	447	peptic ulcer symptom	35
peptic ulcer	352	eye ulcer	34
mouth ulcer	329	symptom of bleeding ulcer	33
duodenal ulcer	235	diabetic foot ulcer	32
bleeding ulcer	230	apthous ulcer	30
stomach ulcer symptom	205	stomach ulcer diet	27
gastric ulcer	165	oral ulcer	24
pressure ulcer	135	ulcer medication	23
ulcer diet	135	venous ulcer	22
decubitus ulcer	83	venous stasis ulcer	21
tongue ulcer	76	esophageal ulcer	21
leg ulcer	75	cause ulcer	21
corneal ulcer	61	stress ulcer	20
ulcer treatment	56	stomach ulcer treatment	20
aphthous ulcer	54	colon ulcer	19
peptic ulcer disease	50	perforated ulcer	19
skin ulcer	49	sign ulcer	19
diabetic ulcer	48	gastric ulcer symptom	18
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Ulcer

Definition: Ulcer

Ulcer

Noun

Specialty Definition: Ulcer

Specialty Definition: Ulcer

Synonym: Ulcer

Synonyms within Context: Ulcer

Disease

Pain

Crosswords: Ulcer

Modern Usage: Ulcer

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Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

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