Word Meanings - ULCEROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Having the nature or character of an ulcer; discharging purulent or other matter. R. Browning. 2. Affected with an ulcer or ulcers; ulcerated. It will but skin and film the ulcerous place. Shak. -- Ul"cer*ous*ly, adv. -- Ul"cer*ous*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ULCEROUS)

• Sore
• Painful
• irritated
• susceptible
• excoriated
• raw
• scarified
• ulcerous
• grievous
• afflictive
• heavy
• burdensome

Related words: (words related to ULCEROUS)

• SCARIFIER
  The instrument used for scarifying. (more info) 1. One who scarifies.
• SCARIFICATOR
  An instrument, principally used in cupping, containing several lancets moved simultaneously by a spring, for making slight incisions.
• AFFLICTIVELY
  In an afflictive manner.
• AFFLICTIVE
  Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing. "Jove's afflictive hand." Pope. Spreads slow disease, and darts afflictive pain. Prior.
• HEAVY-HEADED
  Dull; stupid. "Gross heavy-headed fellows." Beau. & Fl.
• SCARIFICATION
  The act of scarifying.
• PAINFUL
  1. Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing Addison. 2. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march. 3. Painstaking;
• IRRITATION
  The act of exciting, or the condition of being excited to action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition of an organ of sense, when its nerve is affected by some external body; esp., the act of exciting muscle fibers to contraction, by artificial
• IRRITATE
  To render null and void. Abp. Bramhall.
• EXCORIATE
  To strip or wear off the skin of; to abrade; to gall; to break and remove the cuticle of, in any manner, as by rubbing, beating, or by the action of acrid substances.
• GRIEVOUS
  1. Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful. The famine was grievous in the land. Gen. xii. 10. The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight. Gen. xxi 11. 2. Characterized by great atrocity; heinous;
• BURDENSOME
  Grievous to be borne; causing uneasiness or fatigue; oppressive. The debt immense of endless gratitude So burdensome. Milton. Syn. -- Heavy; weighty; cumbersome; onerous; grievous; oppressive; troublesome. -- Bur"den*some*ly, adv. -- Bur"den*some*ness,
• HEAVY-ARMED
  Wearing heavy or complete armor; carrying heavy arms.
• HEAVY
  Having the heaves.
• IRRITATORY
  Exciting; producing irritation; irritating. Hales.
• IRRITATIVE
  1. Serving to excite or irritate; irritating; as, an irritative agent. 2. Accompanied with, or produced by, increased action or irritation; as, an irritative fever. E. Darwin.
• SUSCEPTIBLE
  up, to support, undertake, recognize, admit; pref. sus + 1. Capable of admitting anything additional, or any change, affection, or influence; readily acted upon; as, a body susceptible of color or of alteration. It sheds on souls susceptible
• HEAVY SPAR
  Native barium sulphate or barite, -- so called because of its high specific gravity as compared with other non-metallic minerals.
• HEAVY-HADED
  Clumsy; awkward.
• ULCEROUS
  1. Having the nature or character of an ulcer; discharging purulent or other matter. R. Browning. 2. Affected with an ulcer or ulcers; ulcerated. It will but skin and film the ulcerous place. Shak. -- Ul"cer*ous*ly, adv. -- Ul"cer*ous*ness, n.
• COUNTERIRRITANT; COUNTERIRRITATION
  See A
• TOP-HEAVY
  Having the top or upper part too heavy for the lower part. Sir H. Wotton.
• INIRRITATIVE
  Not accompanied with excitement; as, an inirritative fever. E. Darwin.
• COUNTERIRRITATE
  To produce counter irritation in; to treat with one morbid process for the purpose of curing another.
• ABIRRITATION
  A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; want of strength; asthenia.
• ABIRRITATIVE
  Characterized by abirritation or debility.
• OVERHEAVY
  Excessively heavy.