Definition of chancre Chancre
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What does chancre mean?
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NounPlural: chancres |
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| chancre - a small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis) | ||
| sore an open skin infection | ||
| lues, lues venerea, syph, syphilis, pox a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta) | ||
| deer fly fever, rabbit fever, tularaemia, tularemia, yatobyo a highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animals | ||
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Wiktionary 
- chancre (Noun)
Skin lesion, sometimes associated with certain contagious diseases such as syphilis.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- chancre (n.)
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.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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chancre
shang′kėr, n. an ulcer arising from the direct application of syphilitic poison.—adjs. Chan′croid, Chan′crous. [Fr.; a form of Canker.]
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🔤- chancre, noun, singular of chancres.
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