canker
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- noun
- /ˈkæŋkər/
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afta
- The doctor said the canker sore on my lip will heal within a week.
- canker sore
- get a canker
- heal cankers
Smart of getting beaten up or like paying people to beat you up because I get bad mouth ulcers, which Americans call canker sores.
- Smart of getting beaten up or like paying people to beat you up because I get bad mouth ulcers, which Americans call canker sores.
- I got a yellow toenail, A bunion, A canker, A hemorrhoid.
Examples
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Possibly it's a canker sore in your cheek!
Fiction book (1998) -
Yeah, I got a canker sore in the back of my mouth.
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We drove five and a half hours for this canker sore?
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When I was younger, I used to get what I believe to be canker sores a lot.
Blog text (17) -
If you do enough of that stuff over a short period of time... ...you get these canker sores on your tongue.
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- Side effects include swollen tongue, dry mouth and pus-filled canker sores.
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Fever, canker sores.
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Steroids for asthma are given in the form of spray and can trigger canker sores in the mouth if the drug does not all go into the lungs, but turns around when it reaches the throat.
Blog text (24) -
After eating citrus fruits, I often get a painful canker sore in my mouth.
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She applied a topical ointment to relieve the discomfort of her canker sore.
Synonyms
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3.7
A painful sore on the skin or inside the body that can make pus
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3.9
A small painful area inside the mouth or on the lip
A small painful sore inside the mouth or on the lip, like a canker sore
A small, painful sore or blister inside the mouth often white
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A disease that attacks chestnut trees, making sores on the bark and often killing the tree
How Severe
Surface Forms
Etymology
Canker comes from an old Latin word cancer meaning 'crab', because people thought sores spread out like a crab's legs. So a canker is a small, painful sore that seems to 'eat away' at the skin or mouth and can be hard to heal.