chancre

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They are hot, sensitive to the touch, at first elastic and afterwards become soft; the tissue is destroyed, and infringing on the substance of the skin the disease produces an ulcer, which is known as a chancre.

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  1. noun A dull red, hard, insensitive lesion that is the first manifestation of syphilis.
  2. noun An ulcer located at the initial point of entry of a pathogen.

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  • The first stage of infection during which an open sore called a chancre develops.
  • When bitten you will have devolved a red sore, from the organism that has injected you, they call this red sore "called a chancre" —  CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
  • When bitten you will have developed a red sore, from the organism that has injected you, they call this red sore "called a chancre" —  CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
  • It is oval in shape, perhaps somewhat irregular, with a raw surface and red colored base devoid of pus Immediately following the appearance of the chancre, the glands in direct connection with it become enlarged, hard and rarely painful, but they have no tendency to suppurate like the enlarged glands of chancroid The chancre disappears in a few weeks and then there is a period when the individual has no outward manifestations of the disease. —  The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male
  • Young men who have had recourse to prostitutes, often inoculate their wives with gonorrhea or syphilis, and thus the plague is spread THE SOFT CHANCRE The soft chancre is the third form of venereal disease (the hard chancre being the first stage of syphilis). —  Sex Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English
 

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  1. French, from Old French, from Latin cancer, tumor, crab; see kar- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. French: see canker.
 

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/ˈʃæŋkər/
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