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A hole in you where stress and acid finally agreed on something.
means An open sore on the skin or an internal lining, like the stomach, where tissue has broken down.
from From Latin ulcus (meaning 'sore' or 'wound'), a root so old it's also tangled up with Greek helkos, meaning much the same thing — both likely reaching back to a shared, ancient word for a wound or ulceration. The medical sense has stayed remarkably stable for over two thousand years: a sore is a sore, in any century.
- real cause
- usually bacteria, H. pylori, not spicy food
- old myth
- doctors blamed stress for decades, wrongly
- proof stunt
- scientist drank bacteria to prove it, won Nobel
- silent type
- can bleed with zero pain until collapse