ulceration

Other forms of ulceration

plural

ulcerations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ulceration

What does ulceration mean?

ulceration means "a circumscribed inflammatory and often suppurating lesion on the skin or an internal mucous surface resulting in necrosis of tissue". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ulceration?

ulceration has 4 syllables: ul-ce-ra-tion. The stress falls on "ra". In IPA it is /ˌʌlsɚˈeɪʃən/.

What is another word for ulceration?

Close synonyms include ulcer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ulceration a common word?

ulceration is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with ulceration?

133 words rhyme with ulceration. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.