Definitions for ulcerous

ulcerous ul·cer·ous

Spelling: [uhl-ser-uh s]
IPA: /ˈʌl sər əs/

Ulcerous is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 240 anagrams from letters in ulcerous (celorsuu).

Definitions for ulcerous

adjective

  1. of the nature of an ulcer; characterized by the formation of ulcers.
  2. affected with an ulcer or ulcers.

Origin of ulcerous

1570-80; Latin ulcerōsus full of sores, ulcerous, equivalent to ulcer- a sore, ulcer + -ōsus -ous

Examples for ulcerous

The fly that will fall on none but the galled, ulcerous place, doth feed accordingly.

The subsequent progress of unarrested mercurial stomatitis is that of ulcerous stomatitis.

Slowly one of the priests approached the portrait and put out an ulcerous hand to touch the face.

The local lesions, be they pustular or ulcerous, heal without cicatrices.

She was told that the saint's name was Roch and that he had miraculously cured her little boy of an ulcerous leg.

Tulan stared at the ulcerous image on the screen, built up by infra-red probing through the opaque atmosphere.

There is, in fact, a terrible confusion hidden in the New Morality, an ulcerous evil that is ever working inward.

Signs: Great, ulcerous, wartlike, blood-filled blisters that grew rapidly over the body.

The extract is used as a gargle, wash for ulcerous eruptions and taken internally in tubercular meningitis.

The universal desire was to skin and film the ulcerous place with adulation and hypocrisy.

Word Value for ulcerous
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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