duodenal ulcer

Save This Word!

a peptic ulcer located in the duodenum.

QUIZZES

In effect, this quiz will prove whether or not you have the skills to know the difference between “affect” and “effect.”

Question 1 of 7

The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

After his father died in 1940 while recovering from surgery for a duodenal ulcer, his mother took in lodgers to support the family.
David Prowse, English actor and weightlifter who embodied Darth Vader, dies at 85|Louie Estrada|November 29, 2020|Washington Post
Indeed, Rep. Paul Ryan may talk a good game about the poor, but his policies still give social-justice advocates an ulcer.
How This Pope Is Remaking the GOP|Michelle Cottle|April 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The doctors suspected a heart issue or an ulcer and recommended he follow up with his regular physician.
No Answers in Death of Technician Linked to Andrew Breitbart|Christine Pelisek|November 30, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Talk about a Super Tuesday designed to give all parties involved a massive ulcer.
Super Tuesday: Mitt Romney’s Senior Citizen Surge|Michelle Cottle|March 7, 2012|DAILY BEAST

Buffered and enteric-coated aspirin do not eliminate the risk of developing an ulcer.
Could a Daily Aspirin Be Deadly?|Arthur Agatston, M.D.|February 23, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Except in gastric ulcer, the danger lies in the retching produced, and the tube can safely be used if the patient takes it easily.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
When found in the fluid removed after a test-meal, it commonly points toward ulcer or carcinoma.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Recognition of occult hemorrhage has its greatest value in diagnosis of gastric cancer and ulcer.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
And among others, Sir J. Denham he told me he had cured, after it was come to an ulcer all over his face, to a miracle.
Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete|Samuel Pepys
It chanced one day, when he was fifteen, he went into the woods, and the ulcer pained him.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI|Robert Louis Stevenson