ulceration
IPA: ʌɫsɝˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- The development of an ulcer.
- An ulcerous condition.
Examples of "ulceration" in Sentences
- "Many people are also worried about possible complications such as ulceration and thrombosis.
- When someone takes too much iron, the first effect is irritation and ulceration of the stomach lining.
- Studies show that Andrographis protects the liver from toxins and protects the stomach from ulceration by several different mechanisms.
- -- The condition usually known as ulceration of the womb, is not what is commonly termed ulceration elsewhere, but would be more properly termed abrasion, or erosion.
- The form of ulceration which is presented by cancer in its latest stages bears so great a resemblance to suppurative ulceration that the two things have long since been compared.
- However, potential complications include: bleeding infection skin blistering, scarring or ulceration nerve damage injury to surrounding structures (skin, nerves or organs) allergic reaction to X-ray dye or sclerosant blood in the urine
- What remorse and useless regrets add to the misery of their wretched existence as they daily watch the progress of a malignant ulceration which is destroying their organs of speech, or burrowing deep into the recesses of the skull, penetrating even to the brain itself!
- The distinction between the two varieties of cool and warm, however, may easily be determined by remembering the fact that in most cases the first, or cool, is due to a simple exostosis, while the second is generally connected with disease of the articulation, such as ulceration of the articular surface -- a condition which, as we proceed further, will receive our attention when we reach the subject of stringhalt.