Fester vs Ulcerate - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between fester and ulcerate

is that fester is to become septic; to become rotten while ulcerate is (medicine|transitive) to cause an ulcer to develop.

(palynology|of a pollen grain) having an ulcus, a rounded pore-like aperture, at one or both poles.

(en verb)

To become septic; to become rotten.

* Milton

Wounds immedicable / Rankle, and fester , and gangrene.

To worsen, especially due to lack of attention.

Deal with the problem immediately; do not let it fester .

* Macaulay

Hatred festered in the hearts of the children of the soil.

To cause to fester or rankle.

* Marston

For which I burnt in inward, swelt'ring hate, / And fester'd rankling malice in my breast.

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(en adjective)

(palynology, of a pollen grain) Having an ulcus, a rounded pore-like aperture, at one or both poles.

* monoulcerate

(ulcerat)

(medicine) To cause an ulcer to develop.

The surface was ulcerated by trauma.

(medicine) To become ulcerous.

The tissue ulcerated shortly after exposure.

* ulceration * ulcerative * ulcerative colitis * ulcerative gingivitis ----