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  • noun Plural form of ulceration.

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Examples

  • Then there are yaws and many other skin ulcerations.

    Chapter 15 1913

  • Then there are yaws and many other skin ulcerations.

    Chapter 15 1911

  • A 2006 study published in Clinical Diabetes by Ingrid Kruse, DPM, and Steven Edelman, M.D., indicated that diabetic foot problems, such as ulcerations, infections and gangrene, are the most common causes of hospitalization among diabetic patients.

    BioSpace.com Featured News and Stories 2008

  • It is characterized by crypt abscesses and ulcerations extending down to the muscularis and surrounded by prominent mucosal infiltrate of inflammatory cells.

    IBD resources for professionals 2010

  • The blisters may become filled with a cheese-like necrotic tissue that may progress to ulcerations, full thickness tissue loss and even the loss of fingers.

    Hydrofluoric Acid 2010

  • What's going on here is that the stasis dermatitis ended up ulcerating on both ankles, a not unusual circumstance (I just found out that my maternal grandfather suffered from the same issue with dermatitis, and he used to end up with ulcerations constantly, so I guess I'm fortunate.)

    Yes, it's Twitter stuff again 2009

  • Antihypertensive drugs, calcium-channel blockers and some anti-inflammatory drugs can cause painful ulcerations of the gums.

    If Your Teeth Could Talk ... Melinda Beck 2011

  • By the time he gave up teaching in 1988, and began working full time as a painter – by now with a wife, his former student Frances Carey and their young family to support in south London – retinal detachments and corneal ulcerations had diminished his detailed sight to almost nothing.

    Sargy Mann: the blind painter of Peckham Tim Adams 2010

  • She has a chart – just in case I forget that tiny arachnids with white tails can cause horrific ulcerations to the skin or that the ones with red backs can kill.

    Khaos » 2009 » March 2009

  • She has a chart – just in case I forget that tiny arachnids with white tails can cause horrific ulcerations to the skin or that the ones with red backs can kill.

    Khaos » 2009 » March » 23 2009

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