ulcer

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Latin ulcus.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʌlsɛr/, IPA: /ʌlsər/

Noun

ulcer (plural ulcers)

1. (pathology) An open sore of the skin, eyes or mucous membrane, often caused by an initial abrasion and generally maintained by an inflammation and/or an infection.
2. (pathology) peptic ulcer

Derived terms

• ulcerate
• ulceration
• ulcerative
• ulcerous
• ulcerously
• ulcerousness

Translations

open sore

• Arabic: قرحة (ar) (qárḥa, qúrḥa) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 潰瘍 (cmn), 溃疡 (cmn) (kuìyáng)

• Czech: vřed (cs) m
• Dutch: zweer (nl) f
• Esperanto: ulcero (eo)
• Finnish: haava (fi), haavauma (fi), haavautuma (fi)
• French: ulcère (fr) m
• German: Geschwür (de) n, Ulcus (de) n
• Hungarian: fekély (hu)
• Japanese: 潰瘍 (ja) (かいよう, kaiyō)
• Korean: 궤양 (ko) (gweyang) (潰瘍 (ko))
• Latin: vomica (la) f, ulcus (la) n

• Macedonian: чир (mk) (čir) m
• Polish: wrzód (pl) m
• Portuguese: úlcera (pt) f
• Romanian: ulcer (ro) n
• Russian: язва (ru) (jázva) f
• Scottish Gaelic: neasgaid (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: чир (sh) m, гризлица (sh) f

  Roman: čir (sh) m, grizlica (sh) f

• Slovak: vred (sk) m
• Spanish: llaga (es) f, úlcera (es) f
• Turkish: ülser (tr)
• Volapük: luuk (vo), (cancerous) kanseraluuk (vo), (stomach) stomägaluuk (vo)

peptic ulcer — see peptic ulcer

Anagrams

• cruel
• lucre

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Romanian

Etymology

French ulcère, from Latin ulcus.

Noun

ulcer n (plural ulcere)

1. ulcer

Declension

declension of ulcer

	singular		plural
gender n	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	un ulcer	ulcerul	niște ulcere	ulcerele
genitive/dative	unui ulcer	ulcerului	unor ulcere	ulcerelor