stomach ulcer
2
3.2
- noun
- /ˈstʌmək ˈʌlsər/
- Specialized
:
úlcera gástrica
- After months of discomfort, he finally learned he had a stomach ulcer that required treatment.
And now people are mindful that stress can cause stomach ulcers.
- And now people are mindful that stress can cause stomach ulcers.
- So DGL licorice root extract, licorice root actually helps coat and heal and soothe stomach ulcer pain.
- Or in the case of the H pylori bacteria causing stomach ulcers, where everyone thought that stress and stomach acid caused ulcers.
Examples
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I had a stomach ulcer.
Fiction book (1995) -
Many people take medication to relieve the symptoms caused by a stomach ulcer.
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Stomach ulcers are not caused by stress.
Blog text (23) -
His family doctor, admittedly a little over the hill but not a doddering old fool, diagnosed him with a stomach ulcer.
Blog text (24) -
He impressed me as someone who looked very physically unhealthy, like he must have had a stomach ulcer or something.
Blog text (5) -
Then you told the Army you had stomach ulcers; they x-rayed your belly, saw the dark shadows and shriveled lining, and sent you home with a sympathetic wave.
Fiction book (1991) -
Such conditions will very likely become targets for more effective treatments, as happened when the bacterium Helicobacter pylori was determined to be the cause of stomach ulcers.
Academic text (2004) -
In their original paper, Warren and Marshall contended that most stomach ulcers and gastritis were caused by infection by this bacterium and not by stress or spicy food, as had been believed before.
Blog text (25) -
A.L. Kennedy was recently interviewed in The Guardian about her recent brush with overwork (she writes one book every 11 months plus a column for The Guardian), which resulted in a raft of ills including labyrinthitis, panic attacks, and a stomach ulcer.
Blog text (17) -
The doctor explained that she needed surgery to treat her painful stomach ulcer.
Synonyms
81
3.7
A painful sore on the skin or inside the body that can make pus
3
3.7
A sore on the inside of the stomach or upper small intestine caused by stomach acid
1
4.1
A sore on the inside of the stomach that causes pain
An ulcer in the stomach or top part of the gut caused by stomach acid
How Painful
- Specialized
2
3.2
11
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a sore on the stomach lining' is directly derivable from combining 'stomach' (the organ) and 'ulcer' (a sore), so a learner who knows both constituents will understand the phrase. This simple noun+noun compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English modifier-head structure, making it transparent to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Stomach ulcer is a simple name made from stomach and ulcer, where ulcer was an old word for a 'sore'. Imagine a painful sore inside the stomach. So, that's why the phrase means 'a sore in the stomach that causes pain' today.