These are very prone to become inflamed and to ulcerate during the course of typhoid fever.
Should the wound not readily heal, but ulcerate, it may be bathed with alum-water.
And thus, when suffering does not ulcerate the heart and make it savage, it is the most softening of all influences.
In scurvy the mouth and gums inflame and ulcerate, the latter becoming swollen, spongy, and of a bluish-red color.
These later break down and ulcerate; the ulceration then spreads up and down, causing an immense amount of destruction.
Like other foreign bodies, a gall-stone may ulcerate through the intestine, producing fatal peritonitis.
The skin of the affected part may become brawny and slightly scaly, and not infrequently may break down and ulcerate.
As the disease progresses the nodules tend to break down and ulcerate, leaving open sores.
The eyes may remain open for such long periods of time that the conjunctiva and sclera may become quite dry and ulcerate.
The pupil is usually dilated, the cornea becomes opaque and may ulcerate, and there is photophobia and sometimes diplopia.
ulcerate ul·cer·ate (ŭl'sə-rāt')
v. ul·cer·at·ed, ul·cer·at·ing, ul·cer·ates
To develop an ulcer; become ulcerous.