What's the difference between exulcerate and ulcerate?
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.
Ulcerate
Definition:
(v. i.) To be formed into an ulcer; to become ulcerous.
(v. t.) To affect with, or as with, an ulcer or ulcers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Calcium alginate dressings have been used in the treatment of pressure ulcers and leg ulcers.
(2) We evaluated the circadian pattern of gastric acidity by prolonged intraluminal pHmetry in 15 "responder" and 10 "nonresponder" duodenal ulcer patients after nocturnal administration of placebo, ranitidine, and famotidine.
(3) Exudative inflammatory processes predominate in the ulcer floor.
(4) In the past 6 years 26 patients underwent operation for recurrent duodenal ulcer after what was considered to be an "adequate" initial operation.
(5) Systemic corticosteroids (i.e., prednisone, prednisolone or methylprednisolone) have improved the survival rate of patients with moderate and severe ulcerative colitis.
(6) A leg ulcer in a 52-year-old renal transplant patient yielded foamy histiocytes containing acid-fast bacilli subsequently identified as a Runyon group III Mycobacterium.
(7) The authors conclude that H. pylori alone causes little or no effect on an intact gastric mucosa in the rat, that either intact organisms or bacteria-free filtrates cause similar prolongation and delayed healing of pre-existing ulcers with active chronic inflammation, and that the presence of predisposing factors leading to disruption of gastric mucosal integrity may be required for the H. pylori enhancement of inflammation and tissue damage in the stomach.
(8) Serum pepsinogen 1, serum gastrin, ABO blood groups, secretor status of ABH blood group substances and behavioral factors were studied in 15 patients with duodenal ulcer and 61 their relatives affected and unaffected to duodenal ulcer.
(9) Local injections of contrykal into the ulcer had inhibited proteinase activity and had a positive therapeutic effect.
(10) For that reason we determine basal serum pepsinogen I (PG I) levels in 25 ulcerous patients and 75% of their offspring and to a control group matched by age and sex.
(11) Useful studies on the relationship between these acute lesions and peptic ulceration are rare.
(12) A neodymium YAG (Nd:YAG) laser was evaluated in a dog ulcer model used in the same manner as is recommended for bleeding patients (power 55 W, divergence angle 4 degrees, with CO2 gas-jet assistance).
(13) The ulcers on seven of ten legs (70%) treated with Unna's boots and on 10 of 14 legs (71%) treated with elastic support stocking healed.
(14) In the controlled wound care group, only three ulcers in three patients achieved complete healing; the remaining 24 ulcers in 20 patients failed to achieve even 50% healing in the stipulated 3-month period.
(15) To investigate the possibility that an abnormality of gastric emptying exists in duodenal ulcer and to determine if such an abnormality persists after ulcer healing, scintigraphic gastric emptying measurements were undertaken in 16 duodenal ulcer patients before, during, and after therapy with cimetidine; in 12 patients with pernicious anemia, and in 12 control subjects.
(16) The pathomechanism, how C. pylori facilitates the development of peptic ulcer is since hypothetical.
(17) Three types of responses were observed: group A, no inhibition of gastric acid secretion occurred in 17 (40%) ulcer patients and in three (18%) controls (p less than 0.05); group B, inhibition of gastric acidity occurred in seven (16%) ulcer patients and in 12 (71%) controls (p less than 0.05), and group C, retarded gastric acid inhibition occurred in 19 (44%) duodenal ulcer patients and in 2 (12%) controls (p less than 0.05).
(18) Nine patients with duodenal ulcer were studied before and 2--3 months after proximal gastric vagotomy (PGV).
(19) In group III, multiple confluent ulcers were produced in the cheek pouch on one side, with a single ulcer in the contralateral cheek pouch; no drug was applied, and the tissues were prepared for histology.
(20) Gastric metaplasia was present in only 8% of 48 bulbar ulcer cases.