ulcera
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "He also likes the vapor-cauterization of Wesseli (100° C.), which does not produce an action at a distance. It also helps for deep scrophulous ulcera."
- "The pathogenesis of the veneric ulcerations or soft chancre, or the syphilitic ulcera, the diphtheritic, the tubercular, the rare gonorrhoic ulcerations and of the phagedenic or gangrenous ulcerations of the vulva, is well known."
- "The farthing-sized ulcera and the 2 sixpence-sized ones were, clinically and anatomically, like the fresh ulcers, which Dieulafoy gave the name of ‘exulceratio simplex’."
- "I had occasion to observe four cases of rather fresh ulcera of the vulva, two of them by the amiability of Dr. Sutomo, Chief of the Dermatological Department at the C. B. Z. in Soerabaya.[…]But in those advanced cases, the differences are blotted out, a cicatrical tissue, the origin of which cannot be guessed, appears and the ulcera show a rather unspecific character.[…]De Vrieze put the question, if it could not be perhaps the Plaut-Vincent-infection of phagedænical ulcera and if there had been already made the relative researches, upon which question Roegholt gave a negative answer."
- "Although no doubt the atonic character of the tropical ulcer, as well as the aspect and the course show much resemblance with the properties of ulcera, observed in the Netherlands in cases of serious underfeeding, experience shows, that well fed persons also may get typical tropical ulcers."
- "By the observations and experiments of numbers of clinicians and investigators it has become certain now that the central brain, particularly the hypothalamus, is of great importance for the origin of erosions and ulcera of the stomach."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ulcera