adjective
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relating to, characteristic of, or characterized by an ulcer or ulcers
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being or having a corrupting influence
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Etymology
Origin of ulcerous
1570–80; < Latin ulcerōsus full of sores, ulcerous, equivalent to ulcer- a sore, ulcer + -ōsus -ous
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Ulcerous Form.—This does not occur in children under five, but may attack persons of all greater ages.
From The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) by Winslow, Kenelm
Yet this Spring healed very old and Ulcerous sores on the Legs of a poor Fellow, which had been poyson'd by Irons in the Gaol, after other Chirurgery had been hopeless.
From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry
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