ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.]
1. Converted into an ulcer; afflicted with ulcers; eroded with purulent sores.
1547. Boorde, Brev. Health, § 377. Some be playne woundes…, some be festered, some be vlcerated and some hath fyssures.
1580. Hester, trans. Fioravanti’s Disc. Chirurg., 25 b. The cure of an Vlcerated legge.
1651. Baxter, Inf. Bapt., 274. It is only the ulcerated parts that honey doth bite and purge.
1695. J. Edwards, Perfect. Script., 273. The falling out of his ulcerated bowels.
1721. R. Keith, trans. T. à Kempis, Vall. Lillies, 56. The poor and ulcerated Lazarus, who after Death was joyfully received into Abraham’s Bosom.
1787. Med. Commun., II. 384. The ulcerated sore-throat.
1797. M. Baillie, Morb. Anat. (1807), 383. In advanced stages of the ulcerated uterus.
1799. Med. Jrnl., II. 89. The prevailing method of treating ulcerated legs.
1843. R. J. Graves, Syst. Clin. Med., xxiii. 280. The lungs were extensively solidified, black, and ulcerated.
1872. Cohen, Dis. Throat, 89. Ulcerated sore throat is indicated by its name.
transf. 1842. Loudon, Suburban Hort., 649. Manure … causes the roots to branch and their rind to become ulcerated.
b. fig. (Cf. ULCERATE v. 3.)
1634. Ford, Perk. Warbeck, V. ii. Scorne weares onely Such fashion, as commends to gazers eyes Sad vlcerated Novelty.
1700. T. Brown, Amusem. Ser. & Com., ix. (1709), 99. They … say that his conscience is Ulcerated.
1759. Dilworth, Life of Pope, 28. Wrangling Dennis … with others of a like ulcerated understanding plied all the severity of censure they could, against it.
1875. Jowett, Plato, Gorgias (ed. 2), II. 399. The ulcerated and swollen condition of the State.
† 2. Of matter: Rendered purulent. Obs. rare.
1580. Hester, trans. Fioravanti’s Disc. Chirurg., 21 b. It is a grosse and vlcerated matter.
1660. R. Coke, Power & Subj., 170. The wound is to be inquired into by good counsel; then the ulcerated matter, which does inwardly putrifie, is to be let out, that is, he purge himself through confession.
3. Of diseases: Characterized by the formation of ulcers in the affected part.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), s.v. Cancer, It is call’d an Occult, Latent, or Blind Cancer, but when bigger and open’d, it bears the Name of an Ulcerated Cancer.
1762. R. Guy, Pract. Obs. Cancers, 46. An ulcerated Cancer in the Breast.
1826. S. Cooper, First Lines Surg. (ed. 5), 201. Another event, still more rare, is the actual cicatrization of an ulcerated cancer.
1878. Habershon, Dis. Abdomen (ed. 3), 21. Ulcerated Stomatitis is especially seen in young children of 4 to 10 years of age.
