Crossword clues for chancre
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chancre \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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also chanker, "venereal ulcer," c.1600, from French chancre (15c.), literally "cancer," from Latin cancer (see cancer).
Wiktionary
n. (context pathology English) skin lesion, sometimes associated with certain contagious diseases such as syphilis.
WordNet
n. a small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis)
Wikipedia
A chancre is a painless ulceration (sore) most commonly formed during the primary stage of syphilis. This infectious lesion forms approximately 21 days after the initial exposure to Treponema pallidum, the gram-negative spirochaete bacterium yielding syphilis. Chancres transmit the sexually transmissible disease of syphilis through direct physical contact. These ulcers usually form on or around the anus, mouth, penis, and vagina. Chancres may diminish between four and eight weeks without the application of medication.
Chancres, as well as being painless ulcerations formed during the primary stage of syphilis, are associated with the African trypanosomiasis sleeping sickness, surrounding the area of the tsetse fly bite.
Usage examples of "chancre".
Through the gaps in the ragged shirt, Nora could see angry-looking chancres on the chest and abdomen, weeping clear fluid.
I wrote him a check on the Sawtooth National Bank, but he hooted at it While rubbing a special oil on his palms To keep the chancres from itching beyond endurance On this Sabbath.
As Mildred entered the room, she couldn't help noticing that his genitals were exposed, and that there were livid sores on his scrotum and a festering chancre on his penis.
We'll hear no more from your carrion-stinking maw, you chancre, no more!
At the university, one Holy Saturday, he'd tried to apply a jackass cure to uncertainty: he went into the toilet of a bar, perfectly sober, threw some gunpowder on a chancre, and lighted it.
In the distance it was possible to see the enemy's tower, a gleaming black chancre on the white landscape.
They passed the Grand Stand in the following order: Syphilis first, Chancre second, Bubo third, and Suppuration a bad fourth, closely followed by Unction, Black Wash, Lint, and Copaiba.
McCracken, Medical Corps, USNR, was wearing, proudly, dyed-black trousers and an unbuttoned Marine Corps dungaree jacket-as if to leave no question that he had been the doc of Baker Company, survivor of the Makin Raid, as opposed to your typical natty, run-of-the-mill chancre mechanic.
But when I escaped from Change Alley, I suddenly didn't like people, big or little, male or female, and headed for the ship--and probably saved myself from pox, Cupid's catarrh, soft chancre, Chinese rot, saltwater itch, and athletes foot--the wisest decision I had made since, at fourteen, I had declined to wrestle a medium-sized alligator.