Pertaining to or characterized by ulceration.
- u. balanitis — see enzootic balanoposthitis.
- u. cellulitis — see ulcerative lymphangitis.
- u. colitis — see eosinophilic ulcerative colitis, histiocytic ulcerative colitis.
- u. dermal necrosis — a skin disease of the head of Atlantic salmon and sea trout as they enter fresh water from the sea. The cause is unknown.
- u. dermatitis — disease of Belgian Landrace sows; lesions occur on the ear margins, anterior aspects of the limbs and around the teats; the cause is unknown.
- u. dermatosis — an infectious ulceration of the skin of the lips, feet, legs and external genitalia of sheep, of uncertain etiology, caused possibly by a paravaccinia virus. The lesions are ulcerative and destructive but the disease is not fatal and the morbidity rate is not high.
- u. enteritis — see ulcerative enteritis.
- u. gingivitis — see necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis.
- u. glossitis, stomatitis — in cats, a proliferative inflammation and ulceration of the oral cavity, particularly gum margins and mucosa at the fauces, a common disease of old cats characterized by painful ulcers at the fauces and surrounding tissues including the tongue. The cause is not known.
- u. granuloma of swine — an infectious disease of pigs caused by Borrelia suilla (unofficial nomenclature), and manifested by large, deep, ulcerative lesions on any part of the body. On the face they may cause destruction of the cheeks. The portal of infection is skin wounds and spread of the disease is enhanced by fighting in the group. Called also necrotic ulcer.
- infectious bovine u. stomatitis — an innocuous stomatitis of calves occurring in outbreak form but recorded rarely and not in recent years. Its existence separate from bovine virus diarrhea is not proven.
- u. keratitis — see corneal ulcer.
- u. lymphangitis — see ulcerative lymphangitis.
- u. mammilitis — see bovine herpes mammillitis.
- u. pododermatosis — see ulcerative pododermatitis.
- u. posthitis — occurs sporadically in rams and bulls and as part of ulcerative dermatosis in rams.
- u. shell disease — see shell rot.
- u. stomatitis — 1. several virus infections cause oral ulcers in calves without any other clinical illness unless the calves are stressed, especially with hyperkeratosis caused by secondary nutritional deficiency of vitamin A. — 2. outbreaks in horses are caused by grass with bristly seedheads and pasture infested with bristly caterpillars.
- u. typhlocolitis — one of the causes of idiopathic chronic diarrhea in horses; salmonellosis and intoxication with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are possible culprits.
- u. vulvitis — of ewes, see ulcerative dermatosis (above).
