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Chancre

Chancre Meaning & Definition
Chancre Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Chancre?

[n] a small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis)

Synonyms | Synonyms for Chancre:

Related Terms | Find terms related to Chancre: abscess | acquired syphilis | aposteme | balanitis gangrenosa | bed sore | blain | bleb | blister | boil | bubo | bulla | bunion | canker | canker sore | carbuncle | cerebral tabes | chancroid | chilblain | clap | claps | climatic bubo | cold sore | congenital syphilis | constitutional syphilis | dose | dose of clap | eschar | felon | fester | festering | fever blister | fifth venereal disease | fistula | French disease | furuncle | furunculus | gathering | general paresis | gonorrhea | granuloma inguinale | granuloma venereum | great pox | gumboil | hard chancre | hemorrhoids | kibe | latent syphilis | lesion | locomotor ataxia | morbus Gallicus | papula | papule | paralytic dementia | paresis | paronychia | parulis | petechia | piles | pimple | pock | polyp | pox | pudendal ulcer | pustule | rising | scab | simple chancre | social disease | soft chancre | sore | Spanish pox | stigma | sty | suppuration | swelling | syph | syphilis | syphilitic meningoencephalitis | tabes | tabes dorsales | tertiary syphilis | tropical bubo | tubercle | ulcer | ulceration | VD | venereal disease | wale | welt | wheal | whelk | whitlow | wound

See Also | deer fly fever | pox | rabbit fever | sore | syph | syphilis | tularaemia | tularemia | yatobyo

Chancre In Webster's Dictionary

\Chan"cre\, n. [F. chancere. See {Cancer}.] (Med.) A venereal sore or ulcer; specifically, the initial lesion of true syphilis, whether forming a distinct ulcer or not; -- called also {hard chancre}, {indurated chancre}, and {Hunterian chancre}. {Soft chancre}. A chancroid. See {Chancroid}.

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