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An open sore of the skin, eyes or mucous membrane, often caused by an initial abrasion and generally maintained by an inflammation and/or an infection.

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Peptic ulcer

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Anything that festers and corrupts like an open sore; a vice in character.

Chronic gastric ulcer is not unfrequently the starting point of cancer.

For the diseases of the stomach in general see Digestive Organs; and for special forms Gastritis, Gastric Ulcer, Dyspepsia, &C.; also Abdomen (Abdominal Surgery).

The manner of his death was characteristic. A dangerous ulcer had compelled him to fast for a time.

The climate is cold, dry and healthy, despite the prevalence of the famous "Aleppo button," a swelling which appears either on the face or on the hands, and breaks into an ulcer which lasts a year and leaves a permanent scar.

It is useful in haemorrhage from a gastric ulcer or in haemorrhage from the intestine.

Internally the nitrate has been used in the treatment of gastric ulcer, in ulcerative conditions of the intestine and in chronic dysentery.

He also believed to have suffered from a gastric ulcer.

It has also been employed in the treatment of gastric ulcer in doses of 2 to 4 grs.

On a mucous membrane or a delicate skin it exerts an irritant action, which occurs more quickly than on a thickened epidermis, such as the scalp, and according to the strength and period of application there may result redness, a blister, or an ulcer.

These include angina, back pain, impotence, loss of vision and peptic ulcer.

Which types of medicine can cause ulcers and ulcer complications?

Another significant example along these lines is that of duodenal ulcer, having multifactor etiology.

An ulcer in the stomach is called a gastric ulcer or stomach ulcer; one in the duodenum is called a duodenal ulcer.

To ensure healing in patients with active peptic ulcer disease, see further dosage recommendations for duodenal and benign gastric ulcer.

It may indicate anything from mild gastritis, an ulcer, a bowel polyp, diverticulitis or more rarely cancer.

Black, tarry stools may indicate a hemorrhage from an ulcer of the stomach or the intestine.

The disorder can affect the mucous membranes of the mouth and genitals where it looks like a grayish erosion (shallow ulcer ).

It role following surgery for ulcer perforation is unclear.

John's ulcer was generally shallow and covered in red granulation tissue but was deeper in the lower, outer quadrant.

Compression hosiery has been clinically proven to aid venous return and to help prevent leg ulcer recurrence.

It was concluded that surgical correction of superficial venous reflux reduces 12-month ulcer recurrence.

About peptic ulcers An ulcer in the stomach is called a gastric or stomach ulcer.

There is also another spot with them that looks swollen like an ulcer.

However, it is worth consulting a nutritional therapist or a GP before starting these, especially if you have ever had an ulcer.

A slowly bleeding ulcer can also cause anemia, where there are not enough red blood cells to transport oxygen around the body.

In most cases of duodenal ulcer or benign gastric ulcer healing occurs within 4 weeks.

Routine use of laparoscopic repair for perforated peptic ulcer.

Patients attending leg ulcer clinics may therefore appear to be younger than would generally be expected to have a leg ulcer clinics may therefore appear to be younger than would generally be expected to have a leg ulcer.

For example, would someone with a rodent ulcer, which can be treated successfully, be deemed to be disabled?

He took no heed of the warnings uttered by those sage counsellors, Cambaceres and Talleyrand, against an invasion of Russia, while "the Spanish ulcer" was sapping the strength of the empire at the other extremity.

Stones in the gall-bladder should be removed by operation, as, if left, there is a great risk of their trying to escape with the bile into the intestine and thus causing a blockage of the common bile-duct, and perhaps a fatal leakage of bile into the peritoneum through a perforating ulcer of the duct.

For this reason a blister is placed upon the callous ulcer, which heals with the fresh inflammation thus excited.

It was concluded that H. pylori eradication reduces ulcer recurrence in patients with H. pylori associated perforated duodenal ulceration.

Helicobacter pylori in itself does not usually cause any ulcer symptoms.

Clinical studies using various different H. pylori eradication regimens have shown that eradication of H. pylori prevents ulcer recurrence.

Check H. pylori antibody status in patients with peptic ulcer disease.

John 's ulcer was generally shallow and covered in red granulation tissue but was deeper in the lower, outer quadrant.

Patients will be recruited from leg ulcer clinics in Sheffield and Exeter.

Whereas four worsened in the placebo group and 50% experienced recurrence of the ulcer.

The prevalence of peptic ulcer was 21% in seropositive patients.

Only saline sodium chloride solution or water should be used to clean the ulcer.

Objective evidence of ulcer healing from taking vitamin A has been reported by the same research group.

No information about how patients treated (eg positioning, use of stress ulcer prophylaxis, etc).

Patients attending leg ulcer clinics may therefore appear to be younger than would generally be expected to have a leg ulcer.

Leg ulcer care is more likely to be provided by district nurses than practice nurses.

He had walked several kilometers over pavements, and his varicose ulcer was throbbing.

What can trigger or worsen a venous leg ulcer?

A sore or ulcer around the mouth or on the tongue which takes longer than usual to heal.

During the filming of The Mask, the film newcomer developed a painful ulcer.

What she did find there led her to believe our dog had an ulcer in her stomach or intestines, and immediately placed her on a version of Tagament (human ulcer medicine).