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  • adjective Not ulcerous.

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non- +‎ ulcerous

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Examples

  • Leonard Bertipaglia, perhaps the most influential surgeon of the fifteenth century, added his own admonishment: Those who pretend to cure cancer by incising, lifting, and extirpating it only transform a nonulcerous cancer into an ulcerous one. . .

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • Leonard Bertipaglia, perhaps the most influential surgeon of the fifteenth century, added his own admonishment: Those who pretend to cure cancer by incising, lifting, and extirpating it only transform a nonulcerous cancer into an ulcerous one. . .

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • Leonard Bertipaglia, perhaps the most influential surgeon of the fifteenth century, added his own admonishment: Those who pretend to cure cancer by incising, lifting, and extirpating it only transform a nonulcerous cancer into an ulcerous one. . .

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

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