ulcer

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French ulcere, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin ulcus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʌlsə/
• IPA^(key): /ʌlsɚ/

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

Derived terms

• duodenal ulcer
• gastric ulcer
• mouth ulcer
• peptic ulcer
• stomach ulcer
• ulcerate
• ulceration
• ulcerative
• ulcerous

 

Related terms

• ulcerously
• ulcerousness

Translations

open sore

• Arabic: قَرْحَة f (qarḥa), قُرْحَة f (qurḥa)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: úlcera f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 潰瘍／溃疡 (zh) (kuìyáng), 溃疡 (zh) (kuìyáng)

• Czech: vřed (cs) m
• Danish: byld c
• Dutch: zweer (nl) f
• Esperanto: ulcero
• Finnish: haava (fi), haavauma (fi), haavautuma
• French: ulcère (fr) m
• Galician: úlcera (gl) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Geschwür (de) n, Ulcus n
• Greek: έλκος (el) n (élkos)

  Ancient: ἕλκος n (hélkos)

• Hebrew: כיב (he) m (kiv), אולקוס m ('úlkus)
• Hungarian: fekély (hu)
• Irish: othras m
• Japanese: 潰瘍 (かいよう, kaiyō)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 궤양 (ko) (gweyang) (潰瘍 (ko))
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: vomica f, ulcus (la) n
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Lithuanian: opa (lt) m
• Macedonian: чир m (čir)
• Maori: kōmaoa (in the mouth), katitohe (in the throat), ipuipu, keha, maiao
• Mongolian: шарх (mn) (šarx)
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: byll
• Persian: ریش (fa) (rīš), زخم (fa) (zaxm), گزیدگی (fa) (gazīdegī)
• Polish: wrzód (pl) m
• Portuguese: úlcera (pt) f
• Romanian: ulcer (ro) n
• Russian: я́зва (ru) f (jázva)
• Scottish Gaelic: neasgaid f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: чир m, гризлица f

  Roman: čir (sh) m, grizlica (sh) f

• Slovak: vred (sk) m
• Spanish: llaga (es) f, úlcera (es) f
• Swedish: böld (sv)
• Tagalog: ulsera
• Thai: แผลเปื่อย (plɛ̌ɛ-bpʉ̀ai)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: ülser (tr)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Volapük: luuk (vo), kanseraluuk (cancerous), stomägaluuk (stomach)
• Yiddish: געשוויר n (geshvir)

peptic ulcer — see peptic ulcer

anything that festers and corrupts like an open sore

• Finnish: avoin haava
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Anagrams

• cruel, lucre

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Romanian

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French ulcère, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin ulcus.

Noun

ulcer n (plural ulcere)

1. ulcer

Declension

Declension of ulcer

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) ulcer	ulcerul	(niște) ulcere	ulcerele
genitive/dative	(unui) ulcer	ulcerului	(unor) ulcere	ulcerelor
vocative	ulcerule		ulcerelor