Ulcer vs Rupture - What's the difference?
ulcer | rupture |
(pathology) An open sore of the skin, eyes or mucous membrane, often caused by an initial abrasion and generally maintained by an inflammation and/or an infection.
(pathology) peptic ulcer
(figurative) Anything that festers and corrupts like an open sore; a vice in character.
A burst, split, or break.
* Milton
A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
* E. Everett
(medicine) A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.
(engineering) A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.
(intransitive) To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.
As nouns the difference between ulcer and rupture
is that ulcer is (pathology) an open sore of the skin, eyes or mucous membrane, often caused by an initial abrasion and generally maintained by an inflammation and/or an infection while rupture is a burst, split, or break.As a verb rupture is
(intransitive) to burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.ulcer
English
(wikipedia ulcer)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* ulcerate * ulceration * ulcerative * ulcerous * ulcerously * ulcerousnessAnagrams
* * ----rupture
English
Noun
(en noun)- Hatch from the egg, that soon, / Bursting with kindly rupture , forth disclosed / Their callow young.
- He knew that policy would disincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family.