cold ulcer

English

Noun

cold ulcer (plural cold ulcers)

1. (medicine) An ulcer on a finger or toe, due to deficient circulation and nutrition. In such cases the extremities are cold.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cold ulcer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)