What's the difference between chafe and exulcerate?

Chafe


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
  • (v. t.) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
  • (v. t.) To fret and wear by rubbing; as, to chafe a cable.
  • (v. i.) To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
  • (v. i.) To be worn by rubbing; as, a cable chafes.
  • (v. i.) To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.
  • (n.) Heat excited by friction.
  • (n.) Injury or wear caused by friction.
  • (n.) Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Single New Yorkers have long chafed at the bad maths that means they're sometimes paying twice the rent their coupled-up friends pay; couples can pool their resources and get a nicer place.
  • (2) Posterior iris chafing by the loop or the optic portion of sulcusfixated posterior chamber lens implants may cause a spectrum of disorders that include iris-pigment epithelial "window defects," pigment dispersion with or without elevation of intraocular pressure, intermittent microhyphemas with transient visual obscurations, and the UGH syndrome.
  • (3) Warren, a vocal advocate for economic fairness and Wall Street reform, has notably refrained from endorsing former secretary of state Clinton, Senator Bernie Sanders, former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley, former Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee or former Virginia senator Jim Webb.
  • (4) A popular theme in Shin's films - not unlike the Hollywood weepies of the 1950s - concerns the plight of women chafing under the limits of society's expectations, such as The Evergreen Tree (1961), in which Choi played a reform-minded woman struggling against provincialism to teach rural children how to read and write.
  • (5) All eyes will be watching closely as Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley, Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee spar over the economy, environment, foreign policy, labor rights, and more.
  • (6) What revolution worth its salt can be fuelled by demands of freedom and dignity and not have gender nestled in its beating heart – especially in a country replete with misogyny, religious fundamentalism (of both the Islamic and Christian kind) and which for 60 years has chafed under a hybrid of military-police rule?
  • (7) The son of long-time Republican senator John Chafee, Lincoln Chafee worked as a blacksmith at harness-racing tracks and served as mayor of Warwick, Rhode Island, before he was appointed to the US Senate in 1999, after his father’s death.
  • (8) Another Democratic presidential candidate, former Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee, also appeared to refer to Clinton, telling the DNC: “After 30 years in public service, I’ve had no scandals.
  • (9) The implantation site has been relocated to reduce chafing by clothing and the post-operative wound dressing technique has been altered to minimise catheter movement.
  • (10) The son of longtime Rhode Island Republican senator John Chafee, the presidential candidate’s biography brags that he “attended Montana State University horse shoeing school in Bozeman and worked as a farrier at harness racing tracks for seven years”.
  • (11) Of the other candidates for the Democratic nomination, former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley (3%), former Virginia senator and Reagan navy secretary Jim Webb (2%) and former Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee (1%) all scored less than “uncommitted” (6%) and “not sure” (8%).
  • (12) There are long-running tensions between the state and the large Uighur Muslim population, with many in the community chafing at cultural and religious restrictions and some aspiring to independence.
  • (13) Major figures in Erbil have chafed at gains made by their Syrian neighbours, particularly during the battle for the Yazidi centre of Sinjar , and responses have included cutting back access to the region across the mutual border.
  • (14) Sample lyric: “It’s barbaric but hey, it’s home.” Most potential for chafing Facebook Twitter Pinterest Steven Pasquale and Kelli O'Hara in The Bridges of Madison County.
  • (15) Having chafed for years at their own tradition being denied a hearing, they should resist the temptation to turn the tables.
  • (16) This progressive loss may be related to chronic uveitis from iris chafing by the implant or to direct mechanical damage to the corneal endothelium.
  • (17) You certainly could make the case that that might have led to a different outcome – it might have hastened the departure of President Assad, but it also would have subjected the United States to a whole host of more significant risks, including more significant outlays of funds to fund essentially a war in Syria .” Lincoln Chafee, the former Rhode Island governor who is polling below 1% in the Democratic race, said the US “unfortunately bears a great deal of responsibility for the refugee crisis because of our invasion of Iraq and the spread of chaos in the region as a result”.
  • (18) O’Malley, with 0.8%, trailed the former navy secretary and Virginia senator Jim Webb (1.3%) but was in front of the former Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee , who had 0.3%.
  • (19) After the early exit of no-hopers Lincoln Chafee and Jim Webb, Hillary Clinton is running against three remaining opponents for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 : Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley and herself.
  • (20) Beijing loyalists in Hong Kong’s legislature will say, ‘We need to protect the integrity of the motherland, you’re not allowed to say things like ‘Hong Kong is not China.’’ They worry these sentiments will spread to places like Tibet and Xinjiang, western Chinese provinces with large populations of ethnic minorities and a history of chafing under Beijing’s yoke.

Exulcerate


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) To ulcerate.
  • (v. t. & i.) To corrode; to fret; to chafe; to inflame.
  • (a.) Very sore; ulcerated.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A highly significant elevation of the mean values of Lp(a) in group 1 (P1, with smooth surface plaques) and in group 2 (P2, with exulcerations) vs the control (P0, with no detectable plaques) was established.
  • (2) Surgical treatment of 39 cases of advanced (exulcerated) mammary carcinoma in stages III b and IV is reported in this paper.
  • (3) In a series of 12 patients suffering from an HIV infection, including 9 with confirmed AIDS, who complained about pharyngeal pain in a fixed site, having a progressive intensity and not relieved by antalgics and the specific treatments that were prescribed empirically, and for whom etiological investigation yielded negative results, Thalidomide proved to be the only effective means of healing the exulcerated, nail-mark lesions or the ulcerated, budding, neoplastic-like lesions, and of completely suppressing pain.
  • (4) Twelve patients suffering from haemorrhages from a superficial exulceration (Dieulafoy's disease) were treated on an emergency basis during the period from 1981 to 1987.
  • (5) Simultaneously with these alterations, we found a superficial exulceration on her hard palate, which histologically proved typical for DLE.
  • (6) A 29-year-old woman presented with an exulcerating cancer of the right breast.
  • (7) In the patient the malignant disease was manifested with the clinical picture of diffuse peritonitis caused by perforation of the aboral portion of the appendix vermiformis at the site of the exulcerated secondary of the carcinoma.
  • (8) In the majority of the cases, apart from a superficial exulceration malignant transformation in the glandular substance is present.
  • (9) Healing of the exulceration of skin lesion could be detected by the use of the combined treatment of ASA and dipyridamole in 4 cases.
  • (10) Clinical diagnosis of this very rare tumor was of an exulcerating breast carcinoma.
  • (11) Although there were no metastases found, malignant transformation was deduced from sudden growth, exulceration, as well as dedifferentiation of histological structures in combination with infiltrative expansion.
  • (12) Upon feeding for 2 weeks on lithogenic ration with gelatin morphological investigations disclose inflammatory changes in the gallbladder wall, and after a lapse of 3 weeks--multiple exulcerations in the mucosa and a dense gross sediment in the gallbladder lumen.
  • (13) Incurable exulcerated head and neck tumours frequently produce a foul odour which is a great problem for patients, nurses and family of patients.
  • (14) Superficial scarification of the mucosa, performed at the same time as transplantation, led to exulceration of the tumor into the bladder lumen.
  • (15) In 50% of the lesions an infiltration of the pharynx wall was confirmed, and exulcerations were correctly detected by sonography in 75%.
  • (16) The overall survival of 47 patients with exulcerated lesions compared to a total database of 118 cases did not reach but 37 months according to an earlier study from 1981.
  • (17) The author discusses problems of morphological diagnosis and pathogenesis with reference to a case of sarcoma of the urinary bladder presenting the following particularities: exulcerated pedunculate macroscopic aspect, histological leiomyo- and myxosarcomatous differentiation, angiomatous hyperplasia and a late favourable course after partial cystectomy.
  • (18) Metastatic spread is found in a high percentage of cases (up to 50%), especially in exulcerated or sessile tumors.
  • (19) The influence of vinblastine (VLB) in combined chemotherapy on tumor cell membrane fluidity of a patient with exulcerated soft tissue sarcoma was studied by the electron paramagnetic resonance method (EPR).
  • (20) We report on two female patients (age 78 and 81) suffering from multiple hereditary cylindromas which had grown, changed in color towards a bluish note, and partly exulcerated.

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