ulcerate
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The improvement didn't last long though, as the cornea began to cloud and ulcerate.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2015
The prison press must publish under conditions that would ulcerate an editor on the outside.
From Time Magazine Archive
It's just big happy crowds of harmless arty people expressing themselves and breaking a few pointless shibboleths that only serve to ulcerate young people anyway.
From Time Magazine Archive
Though very indolent, these finally tend to ulcerate, and in time oedematous swellings appear in the vicinity or at distant parts of the body, with nodules at intervals.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
In some cases the tongue and inside of the mouth ulcerate, and the irritation extends to the stomach and bowels, producing distressing and dangerous inflammation of these parts, with severe and obstinate diarrhœa.
From An Epitome of the Homeopathic Healing Art Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time by B. L. (Benjamin L.) Hill
Her hair was dirty and matted and she was unwashed with ulcerated skin.
From BBC ● May 19, 2023
While Vitale said in a statement that the rest has helped, he will need surgery to treat the ulcerated lesions on his vocal cords.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2022
The fish had ulcerated skin and internal hemorrhages; sometimes ponds full of fish were wiped out.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 4, 2020
In 1846, Boston dentist William Morton used ether as an anesthetic for the first time as he extracted an ulcerated tooth from merchant Eben Frost.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 30, 2018
The memory of her treating a farmer’s ulcerated arm the last time we visited her was still fresh in my mind, so I decided to wait and see what she could do for Pita’s leg.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
But the sores that worried the vets were actually tumors that were ulcerating and rotting away under assault by T-cells.
From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2016
But the ulcerating guilt captured in that brutal couplet calls to mind something else that Kipling did: pull strings to get John a commission, after John had twice been rejected on account of weak eyesight.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 25, 2015
But fewer could name the disease spread by those pesky sandflies: The ulcerating skin infection called leishmaniasis.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2011
Just three hilarious, incisive episodes later, it was all over – quietly discharged from the schedules, leaving an almost perceptible stench of soiled sheets, rising bile and ulcerating despair.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 18, 2010
And many think the mamba brings more suffering, what with the ulcerating and all.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
