ulcer
pronunciation
How to pronounce ulcer in British English:
UK [ˈʌlsə(r)]
How to pronounce ulcer in American English:
US [ˈʌlsɚ]
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- Noun:
- a circumscribed inflammatory and often suppurating lesion on the skin or an internal mucous surface resulting in necrosis of tissue
Word Origin
- ulcer (n.)
- c. 1400, from Old French ulcere, from Vulgar Latin ulcerem, from Latin ulcus (genitive ulceris) "ulcer, a sore," figuratively "painful subject," from PIE *elk-es- "wound" (cognates: Greek elkos "a wound, sore, ulcer," Sanskrit Related: arsah "hemorrhoids").
Example
- 1. You deserve many sleepless nights and a stress ulcer .
- 2. Herbalists have long recommended ginger as ulcer therapy .
- 3. He had recurring nightmares and was diagnosed with an ulcer .
- 4. Patients may describe a nonhealing ulcer that bleeds with only mild trauma .
- 5. This can be through a genital ulcer which could bleed or through increased genital discharge .