exulceration

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noun

ulceration

OriginLatin exulceratio →
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Meanings

nounexulceration (countable and uncountable, plural exulcerations)

plural exulcerations

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableulceration

    1719, John Quincy, Pharmacopœia Officinalis & Extemporanea: Or, a Compleat English Dispensatory, publ. A Bell (2nd ed., very much Improv'd), page 437. […] and thus it is likewiſe of ſervice in choletic Conſtitutions, and where the Shapneſs of Humours threatens Excoriations and Exulcerations.

  2. countableobsoleteuncountablefretting; festering; soreness

    Which exulceration of mind made him apt to take all occaſions of contradiction.

    1594, Richard Hooker, The Second Booke of Ecclesiasticall Politie

Origin

  1. Latinexulceratio
  2. Englishexulceration

Latin exulceratio: compare French exulcération.

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APA

exulceration. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/exulceration

MLA

“exulceration.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/exulceration. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “exulceration,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/exulceration.

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