Word Meanings - FONTANEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An issue or artificial ulcer for the discharge of humors from the body. Wiseman.

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• ULCER
  A solution of continuity in any of the soft parts of the body, discharging purulent matter, found on a surface, especially one of the natural surfaces of the body, and originating generally in a constitutional disorder; a sore discharging pus. It
• ULCERATION
  The process of forming an ulcer, or of becoming ulcerous; the state of being ulcerated; also, an ulcer.
• ISSUER
  One who issues, emits, or publishes.
• HUMORSOMENESS
  Quality of being humorsome.
• ARTIFICIALITY
  The quality or appearance of being artificial; that which is artificial.
• ARTIFICIALLY
  1. In an artificial manner; by art, or skill and contrivance, not by nature. 2. Ingeniously; skillfully. The spider's web, finely and artificially wrought. Tillotson. 3. Craftily; artfully. Sharp dissembled so artificially. Bp. Burnet.
• HUMORSOMELY
  Pleasantly; humorously.
• ARTIFICIAL
  1. Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers. Artificial strife Lives in these touches, livelier than life. Shak. 2.
• DISCHARGER
  One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.
• DISCHARGE
  1. To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel. 2. To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge
• ULCERATED
  Affected with, or as with, an ulcer or ulcers; as, an ulcerated sore throat.
• ULCERATIVE
  Of or pertaining to ulcers; as, an ulcerative process.
• ARTIFICIALNESS
  The quality of being artificial.
• ISSUELESS
  Having no issue or progeny; childless. "The heavens . . . have left me issueless." Shak.
• ULCERABLE
  Capable of ulcerating.
• ARTIFICIALIZE
  To render artificial.
• ISSUE
  An artificial ulcer, usually made in the fleshy part of the arm or leg, to produce the secretion and discharge of pus for the relief of some affected part. 8. The final outcome or result; upshot; conclusion; event; hence, contest; test; trial. Come
• ULCERATE
  To be formed into an ulcer; to become ulcerous.
• ULCERED
  Ulcerous; ulcerated.
• HUMORSOME
  1. Moody; whimsical; capricious. Hawthorne. The commons do not abet humorsome, factious arms. Burke. 2. Jocose; witty; humorous. Swift.
• ADEN ULCER
  A disease endemic in various parts of tropical Asia, due to a specific microörganism which produces chronic ulcers on the limbs. It is often fatal. Called also Cochin China ulcer, Persian ulcer, tropical ulcer, etc.
• EXULCERATION
  1. Ulceration. Quincy. 2. A fretting; a festering; soreness. Hooker.
• REISSUE
  To issue a second time.
• EXULCERATORY
  Having a tendency to form ulcers; rendering ulcerous.
• TISSUED
  Clothed in, or adorned with, tissue; also, variegated; as, tissued flowers. Cowper. And crested chiefs and tissued dames Assembled at the clarion's call. T. Warton.
• INTERTISSUED
  Interwoven. Shak.
• EXULCERATIVE
  Tending to cause ulcers; exulceratory. Holland.
• OVERISSUE
  An excessive issue; an issue, as of notes or bonds, exceeding the limit of capital, credit, or authority. An overissue of government paper. Brougham.
• TISSUE
  One of the elementary materials or fibres, having a uniform structure and a specialized function, of which ordinary animals and plants are composed; a texture; as, epithelial tissue; connective tissue. Note: The term tissue is also often applied