a. [ad. med.L. ulcerātĠv-us: see ULCERATE v. and -IVE. So F. ulcératif, -ive (1495), Sp., Pg., It. ulcerativo.]
1. Causing ulceration.
1575. J. Banister, Treat. Chyrurg., 138. The properties of vlceratiue medicins, is to breake & blister the skinne, in what places they are laide.
1601. Holland, Pliny, II. 158. The dregs of vinegre, must of necessitie be much more sharpe, biting, and ulcerative, than wine lees.
1813. J. Thomson, Lect. Inflam., 379. One, two, or three parts … were more susceptible of the ulcerative stimulus than the others.
2. Of the nature of ulceration.
1800. Med. Jrnl., IV. 489. Extensive erysipelas … followed in most [instances] by an immediate ulcerative process.
1835–6. Todd’s Cycl. Anat., I. 444/2. The process of ulcerative absorption in any structure is scarcely understood.
1872. Cohen, Dis. Throat, 116. The ulcerative process may involve its cartilages as well as its mucous membrane.
1878. T. Bryant, Pract. Surg., I. 44. Opium is an admirable drug when the ulcerative action is present.
3. Accompanied or characterized by the formation of ulcers.
1813. J. Thomson, Lect. Inflam., 223. Mr. Hunter has divided inflammation … into adhesive, suppurative, and ulcerative.
1850. F. Churchill, Dis. Children, II. vi. (1858), 471. Ulcerated sore mouth. Ulcerative stomatitis.
1879. St. George’s Hosp. Rep., IX. 411. Ulcerative endocarditis of the heart-wall.
4. Due to, produced by, ulceration.
1876. Bristowe, Th. & Pract. Med. (1878), 45. The chief removal of ulcerative detritus.
