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nternal; inward; -- opposed to external. Epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcers. Milton.

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.

A chap or crack in the flesh occasioned by cold; an ulcerated chilblain. "He galls his kibe." Shak.

Lint; esp., lint made into a tent for insertion into wounds or ulcers.

Malignant; as, a malign ulcer. [R.] Bacon.

Virulence; tendency to a fatal issue; as, the malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever.

irus, of a vesicle or pustule which first enlarges and then breaks down into an unhealthy ulcer. It is marked by profound exhaustion and usually fatal. Called also charbon, and sometimes, improperly, anthrax.

A name formerly applied to several varieties of ulcerous cutaneous diseases, but now restricted to Lupus exedens, an ulcerative affection of the nose.

An affection of a finger or toe, attended with ulceration at the base of the nail, and terminating in the destruction of the nail.

A discharge of fetid matter from the nostril, particularly if associated with ulceration of the soft parts and disease of the bones of the nose.

A tent or pledget for wounds or ulcers.

gminated glands; -- called also Peyer's patches. In typhoid fever they become the seat of ulcers which are regarded as the characteristic organic lesion of that disease.

Spreading, obstinate ulceration.

, like, or pertaining to, phagedena; used in the treatment of phagedena; as, a phagedenic ulcer or medicine. -- n.

A compress, or small flat tent of lint, laid over a wound, ulcer, or the like, to exclude air, retain dressings, or absorb the matter discharged.

To examine, as a wound, an ulcer, or some cavity of the body, with a probe.

To make morbid, carious, or gangrenous; as, to putrefy an ulcer or wound.

Gnawing; biting; corroding; (Med.) applied to a destructive variety of cancer or ulcer.

To discharge pus or other matter; as, an ulcer runs.

The discharge from an ulcer or other sore. At long running, in the long run. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.