exulceration
English
editEtymology
editLatin exulceratio: compare French exulcération.
Noun
editexulceration (countable and uncountable, plural exulcerations)
- (obsolete) ulceration
- 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.
- 1719, John Quincy, Pharmacopœia Officinalis & Extemporanea: Or, a Compleat English Dispensatory, publ. A Bell (2nd ed., very much Improv'd), page 437.
- (obsolete) fretting; festering; soreness
- 1594, Richard Hooker, The Second Booke of Ecclesiasticall Politie:
- Which exulceration of mind made him apt to take all occaſions of contradiction.