ulcer

English

Etymology

From Old French ulcere, from Latin ulcus. Doublet of ulcus.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ʌlsə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ʌlsɚ/

Noun

ulcer (plural ulcers)

1. (pathology) An open sore of the skin, eyes or mucous membrane, often caused by an initial abrasion and generally maintained by an inflammation and/or an infection.
2. (pathology) Peptic ulcer.
3. (figurative) Anything that festers and corrupts like an open sore; a vice in character.

Derived terms

• Aden ulcer
• aphthous ulcer
• Buruli ulcer
• cold ulcer
• Cushing ulcer
• decubitus ulcer
• duodenal ulcer
• esophageal ulcer
• gastric ulcer
• mouth ulcer
• peptic ulcer
• pressure ulcer
• stomach ulcer
• tropical ulcer
• ulcerate
• ulceration
• ulcerative
• ulcerous
• Vincent's ulcer

 

Related terms

• ulcerously
• ulcerousness

Translations

open sore

• Albanian: ulçerë f
• Arabic: قَرْحَة f (qarḥa), قُرْحَة f (qurḥa)
• Armenian: խոց (hy) (xocʻ)
• Azerbaijani: xora, yara (az)
• Basque: ultzera
• Belarusian: я́зва f (jázva), ве́рад m (vjérad)
• Bengali: জখম (bn) (zôkhôm)
• Bulgarian: я́зва (bg) f (jázva)
• Catalan: úlcera f, nafra (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 潰瘍／溃疡 (zh) (kuìyáng)

• Czech: vřed (cs) m
• Danish: byld c
• Dutch: zweer (nl) f
• Esperanto: ulcero
• Estonian: haavand
• Finnish: haava (fi), haavauma (fi), haavautuma
• French: ulcère (fr) m
• Galician: úlcera (gl) f, úcera f, chaga f
• Georgian: წყლული (c̣q̇luli), იარა (iara)
• German: Geschwür (de) n, Ulcus n
• Greek: έλκος (el) n (élkos)

  Ancient: ἕλκος n (hélkos)

• Hebrew: כִּיב (he) m (kiv), אולקוס m ('úlkus)
• Hindi: फोड़ा (hi) m (phoṛā), व्रण (hi) m (vraṇ), अल्सर (alsar)
• Hungarian: fekély (hu)
• Indonesian: borok (id), sariawan (id), tukak (id)
• Irish: othras m
• Italian: ulcera (it) f
• Japanese: 潰瘍 (ja) (かいよう, kaiyō)
• Kazakh: жара (jara)
• Khmer: ដំបៅ (km) (dɑmbaw), វណ (vĕəʼnaʼ), ម្រេញ (km) (mrɨñ)
• Korean: 궤양(潰瘍) (ko) (gweyang)
• Kyrgyz: жара (ky) (jara)
• Lao: ແຜບວມ (phǣ būam)
• Latin: vomica f, ulcus (la) n
• Latvian: čūla f
• Lithuanian: opa (lt) m
• Macedonian: чир m (čir)
• Malay: ulser
• Maori: kōmaoa (in the mouth), katitohe (in the throat), ipuipu, keha, maiao
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: шарх (mn) (šarx)

• Nepali: अल्सर (alsar)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: byll m

• Persian: ریش (fa) (riš), زخم (fa) (zaxm), گزیدگی (fa) (gazidegi), دمل (fa) (domal)
• Polish: wrzód (pl) m
• Portuguese: úlcera (pt) f
• Romanian: ulcer (ro) n
• Russian: я́зва (ru) f (jázva)
• Scottish Gaelic: neasgaid f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: чи̏р m, гри̏злица f

  Roman: čȉr (sh) m, grȉzlica (sh) f

• Slovak: vred (sk) m
• Slovene: čir m, razjeda f
• Spanish: llaga (es) f, úlcera (es) f
• Swahili: kidonda (sw) class ki/vi
• Swedish: böld (sv) c
• Tagalog: ulsera, ulser
• Tajik: захм (tg) (zaxm), реш (reš), яра (yara), ҷароҳат (jarohat)
• Telugu: పుండు (te) (puṇḍu)
• Thai: แผลเปื่อย (plɛ̌ɛ-bpʉ̀ai)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: ülser (tr)
• Turkmen: ýara
• Ukrainian: ви́разка f (výrazka), ура́зка f (urázka), ве́ред m (véred)
• Uzbek: yara (uz), jarohat (uz)
• Vietnamese: loét (vi)
• Volapük: luuk (vo), kanseraluuk (cancerous), stomägaluuk (stomach)
• Yiddish: געשוויר n (geshvir)
• Yoruba: ojuju, ooju

peptic ulcer — see peptic ulcer

anything that festers and corrupts like an open sore

• Bulgarian: поквара (bg) f (pokvara)
• Finnish: avoin haava

Anagrams

• cruel, lucre

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French ulcère, from Latin ulcus.

Noun

ulcer n (plural ulcere)

1. ulcer

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	ulcer	ulcerul		ulcere	ulcerele
genitive-dative	ulcer	ulcerului		ulcere	ulcerelor
vocative	ulcerule			ulcerelor