ulcer
uhl ser
- n a circumscribed inflammatory and often suppurating lesion on the skin or an internal mucous surface resulting in necrosis of tissue
- Countless peptic-ulcer patients are put on a bland diet rich in milk and cream.
- Ever since Boston's late great Surgeon Harvey Gushing showed that impulses from the brain, communicated through the nervous system to the digestive tract, could cause peptic ulcers.
- The importance of emotional factors in bringing on stomach ulcers is well known, but one of the doctor's problems is to decide which of his patients are "the ulcer type.