During most visits he had complaints concerning his general health, including a bad back, gastric ulcer, kidney infection and thyroid problems, causing, inter alia, sleeping problems.

Ulcer?

The postman, eh? Varicose ulcer.

How is your stomach ulcer?

I bet you got an ulcer.

This is a diabetic ulcer. It's tragic.

But to the quick o' the ulcer.

I just told you, it's a mild ulcer.

I think I got an ulcer or something.

Um... it looks like you've got a mild ulcer.

What I'm about to show you is a diabetic ulcer.

Bye, Sig. I wonder if I've got room for another ulcer.

Having an ulcer is like having a burglar alarm go off inside you.

His doctor told him he's got an ulcer, but trust me, it's stomach cancer.

Skip a meal, you gotta take an aspirin. Too many aspirins, you got an ulcer.

Crabs have this complicated structure under their carapace called the gastric mill that grinds their food in a variety of different ways.

I once had a cousin who had a duodenal ulcer and an extremely funny face, both at the same time.

(d) According to recent information, Thich Huyen Quang recently suffered a gastric haemorrhage and is now under medical treatment in Binh Dinh Province General Hospital.

So we know, for example, that two sugar pills a day are a more effective treatment for getting rid of gastric ulcers than one sugar pill.

And this lady decided, after a year of attempted treatment of that ulcer, that she would try this new therapy that Steve invented.

I got paged by the E.R. around 2 in the morning to come and see a woman with a diabetic ulcer on her foot.

I think a lot of times we hear about diabetics, diabetic ulcers, we just don't connect the ulcer with the eventual treatment, which is amputation, if you can't heal it.

A medical examination revealed the presence of multiple bruises, two fractures of the facial and skull bones, a circular peri colonal ulcer on the penis, soft tissue injuries and acute bronchitis.

So to give them something tangible that shows that there is something after death, they take the gastric juices of people who passed away and concentrate them, and put them into a battery that can actually be used to power flashlights. They also go you know, sex toys, whatever.

Moreover, these steps are being complemented on the one hand by the implementation and restructuring of major health programmes concerning, inter alia, AIDS, an expanded vaccination programme, Buruli apos s ulcer and Guinea worm, and on the other hand stepped up training for health care personnel..

In fact, one in six cancer cases worldwide is caused by a known infectious agent, with the proportion rising to one third in some countries in Sub Saharan Africa. The four main culprits are hepatitis B and C (hepB and hepC), human papillomavirus (HPV), and Helicobacter pylori, which are collectively responsible for 1.9 million cases of liver, cervical, and gastric cancer annually.

Moreover, Côte d apos Ivoire organized a regional meeting, attended by the Presidents of Benin and Ghana, to promote public awareness of, and the struggle against, Buruli apos s ulcer, a little known but degrading and destructive illness. The multiplicity of conflict situations in Africa has become a real subject of concern for the entire international community.

(c) Support for preventive initiatives and increased focus on dealing with epidemic gastric diseases including malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS in view of the increasing gravity of the AIDS pandemic, and the inclusion of policies to combat it in educational and media programmes and awareness programmes, and the promotion of participation by all sectors of society in dealing with them, as well as enabling poor people to obtain basic medicines.

President Bédié, who was Africa apos s representative at the commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the World Health Organization, in addressing that body called to mind the serious economic and financial crisis and its unfavourable impact on the social sectors in general and on health in particular. He listed the health care challenges facing Africa, stressing major new problems such as AIDS and Buruli apos s ulcer.