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- noun Plural form of
chancre .
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Examples
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-- This disease generally makes its appearance by what physicians call chancres, and when taken from sexual connexion with an infected person; the first warning of its approach is generally an itching about the head of the penis, or on the side of the penis near the end, and on the inside of the lips of the privates of females.
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Early stage symptoms: One or more round, painless sores (called chancres), typically located where syphilis entered the body.
SFGate: Top News Stories Victoria Colliver 2009
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Early stage symptoms: One or more round, painless sores (called chancres), typically located where syphilis entered the body.
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Although these lesions (called chancres) can be anywhere on the body, they are usually on the genitals.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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My primary stage gives you painless "chancres" and lymph node enlargement.
Archive 2007-05-01 Emma Lurie 2007
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My primary stage gives you painless "chancres" and lymph node enlargement.
Treponema pallidum Emma Lurie 2007
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In a closet, a feast of foamy chancres just blossomed on our collective the portrait of Dorian Grey.
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads Jason Linkins 2011
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In a closet, a feast of foamy chancres just blossomed on our collective the portrait of Dorian Grey.
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads Jason Linkins 2011
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No chancres in the macular area, no glaucoma, the latter fact proved by an ultrasound exam.
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A pale spiral-shaped organism had been spotted in chancres as early as 1837.
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010
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