ulcer

English

Etymology

From Old French ulcere, from Latin ulcus. Doublet of ulcus.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈʌlsə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈʌlsɚ/
• Rhymes: -ʌlsə(ɹ)

Noun

ulcer (plural ulcers or ulcera)

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.
   • 1957, Sydney J. Bounds, The Robot Brains, London: Digit Books, page 35:

     "Worry never solved any problems. Only gives you ulcers."

3. (figurative) Anything that festers and corrupts like an open sore; a vice in character.

Derived terms

• Aden ulcer
• aphthous ulcer
• Buruli ulcer
• cold ulcer
• Cushing ulcer
• decubitus ulcer
• duodenal ulcer
• esophageal ulcer
• gastric ulcer
• mouth ulcer
• peptic ulcer
• pressure ulcer
• stomach ulcer
• tropical ulcer
• ulcerate
• ulceration
• ulcerative
• ulcerous
• Vincent's ulcer
• weak ulcer

Related terms

• ulcerously
• ulcerousness

Translations

open sore

• Albanian: ulcerë f
• Arabic: قَرْحَة f (qarḥa), قُرْحَة f (qurḥa)
• Armenian: խոց (hy) (xocʻ)
• Azerbaijani: xora, yara (az)
• Basque: ultzera
• Belarusian: я́зва f (jázva), ве́рад m (vjérad)
• Bengali: জখম (bn) (zôkhôm)
• Bulgarian: я́зва (bg) f (jázva)
• Catalan: úlcera f, nafra (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 潰瘍 / 溃疡 (zh) (kuìyáng)

• Czech: vřed (cs) m
• Danish: byld c
• Dutch: zweer (nl) f
• Esperanto: ulcero
• Estonian: haavand
• Finnish: haava (fi), haavauma (fi), haavautuma
• French: ulcère (fr) m
• Galician: úlcera (gl) f, úcera f, chaga f
• Georgian: წყლული (c̣q̇luli), იარა (iara)
• German: Geschwür (de) n, Ulcus n
• Greek: έλκος (el) n (élkos)

  Ancient: ἕλκος n (hélkos)

• Hebrew: כִּיב (he) m (kiv), אולקוס m ('úlkus)
• Hindi: फोड़ा (hi) m (phoṛā), व्रण (hi) m (vraṇ), फुड़िया f (phuṛiyā)
• Hungarian: fekély (hu)
• Indonesian: borok (id), sariawan (id), tukak (id), ulkus
• Irish: othras m
• Italian: ulcera (it) f
• Japanese: 潰瘍 (ja) (かいよう, kaiyō)
• Kazakh: жара (jara)
• Khmer: ដំបៅ (km) (dɑmbaw), វណ (vĕəʼnaʼ), ម្រេញ (km) (mrɨñ)
• Korean: 궤양(潰瘍) (ko) (gweyang)
• Kyrgyz: жара (ky) (jara)
• Lao: ແຜບວມ (phǣ būam)
• Latin: vomica f, ulcus (la) n
• Latvian: čūla f
• Lithuanian: opa (lt) m
• Macedonian: чир m (čir)
• Malay: ulser
• Maori: kōmaoa (in the mouth), katitohe (in the throat), ipuipu, keha, maiao
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: шарх (mn) (šarx)

• Nepali: अल्सर (alsar)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: byll m

• Persian: ریش (fa) (riš), زخم (fa) (zaxm), گزیدگی (fa) (gazidegi), دمل (fa) (domal)
• Polish: wrzód (pl) m
• Portuguese: úlcera (pt) f
• Romanian: ulcer (ro) n
• Russian: я́зва (ru) f (jázva)
• Scottish Gaelic: neasgaid f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: чи̏р m, гри̏злица f

  Roman: čȉr (sh) m, grȉzlica (sh) f

• Slovak: vred (sk) m
• Slovene: čir m, razjeda f
• Spanish: llaga (es) f, úlcera (es) f
• Swahili: kidonda (sw) class ki/vi
• Swedish: böld (sv) c
• Tagalog: ulsera, ulser
• Tajik: захм (tg) (zaxm), реш (reš), яра (yara), ҷароҳат (jarohat)
• Telugu: పుండు (te) (puṇḍu)
• Thai: แผลเปื่อย (plɛ̌ɛ-bpʉ̀ai)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: ülser (tr)
• Turkmen: ýara
• Ukrainian: ви́разка f (výrazka), ура́зка f (urázka), ве́ред m (véred)
• Uzbek: yara (uz), jarohat (uz)
• Vietnamese: loét (vi)
• Volapük: luuk (vo), kanseraluuk (cancerous), stomägaluuk (stomach)
• Yiddish: געשוויר n (geshvir)
• Yoruba: ojuju, ooju

peptic ulcer — see peptic ulcer

anything that festers and corrupts like an open sore

• Bulgarian: поквара (bg) f (pokvara)
• Finnish: avoin haava

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Verb

ulcer (third-person singular simple present ulcers, present participle ulcering, simple past and past participle ulcered)

1. To ulcerate.

Anagrams

• cruel, lucre

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French ulcère, from Latin ulcus.

Noun

ulcer n (plural ulcere)

1. ulcer

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	ulcer	ulcerul		ulcere	ulcerele
genitive-dative	ulcer	ulcerului		ulcere	ulcerelor
vocative	ulcerule			ulcerelor