NOUN | state | chancre | a small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis) |
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Meaning | A small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis). | |
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Part of | syphilis, syph, pox, lues venerea, lues | A common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete |
tularemia, tularaemia, rabbit fever, deer fly fever, 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 | |
Broader | sore | An open skin infection |
Spanish | chancro | |
Catalan | xancre | |
Adjectives | chancrous | of or having chancres |
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