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Ulcer Ulcera Ulcus
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ ULCER   or in plural
~ ULCERA  also in lat and ukr
~ ULCUS   id+ | CHRONIC SORE or UNHEALING WOUND |
^u        from
  gr  HELKOS for WOUND
  ukr ULKUS  for STOMACH or GASTRIC ULCER
  med> in some languages the term implies a
       DEGENERATIVE RATHER THAN TRAUMATIC
  NON HEALING thus CHRONIC
  SORE but note that often
  ULCER implies LACK of PAIN or being PAINLESS
  SORE  implies see> HURT
  see> SORE
  see> SORRY
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