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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A sore or ulcer arising from the direct application of syphilitic poison. Chancres are of two kinds: the true chancre, consisting of an ulcer with a hard indurated base, occurring at the point of infection; the initial lesion of syphilis; the soft chancre. See chancroid.
  2. n. In botany, a disease of the tobacco-plant attributed to Bacillus æruginosus.

Wiktionary

  1. n. skin lesion, sometimes associated with certain contagious diseases like syphilis.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (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.

WordNet 3.0

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

Etymologies

  1. From French chancre ("cancer"), from Latin cancer, originally meaning “crab”. (Wiktionary)
  2. French, from Old French, from Latin cancer, tumor, crab; see kar- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “The disease is already systemic, or constitutional, and the chancre is the local expression of a constitutional disease.”

    Woman Her Sex and Love Life

  • “The _syphilis_ germ will grow first where it is rubbed in, causing a hard ulcer, called a chancre, and after that it travels through the entire body.”

    Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition

  • “Primary syphilis is usually heralded by a single sore called a chancre, and if not treated, patients can develop a rash, fever, swollen lymph nodes and other symptoms.”

    Reuters: Top News

  • “It is spread through sexual contact with sores, which Mercer called chancre ulcers, that typically are painless.”

    The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register

  • “The chancre is a painless round nodule of thickened tissue, usually with a smooth appearance.”

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  • “He didn’t consider the possibility that his patient could have both illnesses, so when he developed symptoms of each, he concluded that “gonorrhea and the chancre are the effects of the same poison.””

    Simon & Schuster: MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION

  • “I think yo also find that the ethos of mega-capitalism (apply it to houses, cars, boats, etc.) that you find in suburbs/exurbs is strongly opposed by most rural Americans; indeed, they may be the section of our population that finds such thinking most alien and prima facie absurd (perhaps having to do with a closeness to nature that correctly understands growth without end is cancer and animals and chancre in plants).”

    Matthew Yglesias » By Request: Missing the Trees

  • “Granted, it's fantasy, but she could flick her bean just as easily to a "five-inch, veiny schlong that's smattered with kinked pubic hair, and maybe a chancre or two" as she could to a rock-hard ten-inch meat wand with the girth of two stacked Pepsi cans.”

    The Huffington Post: Jeff Klima: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Love Scenes

  • “He views “unearned” aid for the peasantry (you know, like GI Bills) as a chancre that will eat out American society from within.”

    Matthew Yglesias » The Trouble With Unconditionality

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  1. chancre
  2. hunterian
  1. chancroid
  2. chancrous
  1. shanker
  2. chancriform
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  2. chancred
  1. primary syphilis
  2. primary

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