Path. Also 5 vlceracio(u)n, 6 -cyon, -tion. [ad. L. ulcerātiōn-, ulcerātio, noun of action f. ulcerāre: see ULCERATE v. Hence also F. ulcération (1314), Sp. ulceracion, Pg. -ação, It. -azione.]
1. The action, process, or state of forming ulcers or of becoming ulcerated.
c. 1400. Lanfranc’s Cirurg., 214. Þis wole not suffre þat þe matere schal make noon vlceracioun ne no fretyng.
a. 1425. trans. Arderne’s Treat. Fistula, etc., 37. Signes, forsoþe, or his vlceracion bene þise.
c. 1530. Judic. Urines, III. vii. 51 b, marg. Vlceracyon of the bladder. Vlceracyon of ye reines. Vlceracyon of ye liuer.
1541. R. Copland, Guydon’s Form., R iij b. Before the vlceracyon fyrste ought to be mynystred medycyns that be colde.
1611. Cotgr., Vlceration, an ulceration; a making or growing vlcerous, a drawing to an vlcer.
1676. Wiseman, Chirurg. Treat., II. ii. 169. Where the Part hath been long affected with Vlceration, it is very difficult to cicatrize.
1804. Abernethy, Surg. Obs., 160. Some of these sores spread by ulceration, and some by sloughing.
1847. E. J. Seymour, Severe Dis., I. 16. Adhesion of the gall-bladder to the bowels and subsequent ulceration.
1876. Bristowe, Th. & Pract. Med. (1878), 44. In ulceration the destruction of parts is molecular, or by small fragments, and progressive.
2. An ulcerous formation; an ulcer or group of ulcers.
1580. T. Newton, Approved Medicines, 57 b. Pryuet … healeth vlcerations of the Mouthe that often happe in Children.
1599. A. M., trans. Gabelhouer’s Bk. Physicke, 178/2. A little bagge, as bigge that it may cover the vlceration.
1718. Quincy, Compl. Disp., 120. All Medicines of this Intention are suppos’d … to … fill up with new Flesh, all Ulcerations, and Foulnesses.
1725. Fam. Dict., s.v. Lucatellus Balsam, Such Coughs as give Suspicion of Tubercles and Ulcerations in the Lungs.
1804. Abernethy, Surg. Obs., 124. He had an ulceration which spread over the palate.
1829. Cooper, Good’s Study Med. (ed. 3), III. 513. The disease generally commences on the alæ of the nose, with small tubercules, which gradually change into ulcerations.
