HyperDic: chancre

English > 1 sense of the word chancre:
NOUNstatechancrea small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis)
English > chancre: 1 sense > noun 1, state
MeaningA small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis).
Part ofsyphilis, syph, pox, lues venerea, luesA common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete
tularemia, tularaemia, rabbit fever, deer fly fever, yatobyoA highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animals
BroadersoreAn open skin infection
Spanishchancro
Catalanxancre
Adjectiveschancrousof or having chancres

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