rodent ulcer

Rodent ulcer (Jacobi ulcer)

A rodent ulcer was eating its way upwards, coiling on in its serpiginous fashion until the end of it was flush with her collar.

His nose and the tips of his ears were eroded by rodent ulcers from the tropical sun so that they looked as though mice had been nibbling at them.

Other conditions that can cause similar-appearing conditions include skin mites, ringworm, yeast infection, or auto-immune diseases such as eosinophilic granuloma complex ("rodent ulcers").

In Sweden, Thor Stenbeck published results of the first successful treatments of rodent ulcer and epithelioma in 1899, later that year confirmed by Tage Sjögren.

There were men with only half a face, covered in suppurating sores, rodent ulcers, men with empty eye sockets, torn mouths, ragged stumps who had cried out for a penny for an old soldier.

Influenced by electrotherapy and escharotics - the medical application of caustic substances - doctors began using radiation to treat growths and lesions produced by diseases such as lupus, rodent ulcer, and epithelioma.

Owen Griffith, a qualified pharmacist from Penycaerau, who was known as the "Doctor of the Wild Wart", used a traditional herbalist remedy to cure basal cell carcinoma, also known as rodent ulcer; the remedy had supposedly been passed on to the family 300 years earlier by an Irish tinker.