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EXULCERATION

Volume 17 · 43 words · 1810 Edition

in Medicine, the act of caufling or producing ulcers. Thus, arsenic exulcerates the intestines; corrosive humours exulcerate the skin.

Exulceration is sometimes also used for an ulcer itself; but more generally for those beginning erosions which wear away the sublance, and form ulcers.