ulcère — meaning in English

English meaning

• cacoethes noun Compulsion; mania.
• ulcer noun An open, slow-healing sore on the skin or inside the body, often caused by irritation or infection.

Senses

ulcère is used for these senses in English:

• cacoethes (medicine, obsolete) A bad quality or disposition in a disease; a malignant tumour or ulcer.
• ulcer (figurative) Anything that festers and corrupts like an open sore; a vice in character.

cacoethes — full definition

1. noun Compulsion; mania.
2. noun A bad quality or disposition in a disease; a malignant tumour or ulcer.

ulcer — full definition

1. noun An open, slow-healing sore on the skin or inside the body, often caused by irritation or infection.
2. noun Something corrupting or eating away at a person, situation, or organisation, likened to an open sore.

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