chancre
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- noun
- /ˈʃæŋkər/
- Specialized
- Beyond, where the bridge is anchored to the opposite shore, a chancre of little shops has erupted, paved around with cobbles and lit the night through by enormous iron streetlamps which cast a pinkish aura over the entire market.
Examples
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Do you have gonorrhea, syphilis, or soft chancre?
Academic text (2007) -
Iconic among these new diseases was an innocuous genital chancre carried away from the West Indies by one of Columbus's crew
Academic text (2018) -
- Where did the chancre first appear?
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He wondered, distantly, how it would affect the local currents to have such a chancre of raw heat located here.
Fiction book (1991) -
Syphilis as the "king's evil" and the chancre projected as the sun's rays might have been lifted from Measure for Measure's bawdry.
Academic text (2007) -
A chancre is often the first sign of syphilis, appearing as a painless sore on the skin.
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During the examination, the doctor identified a chancre located near the patient's genitals.
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If untreated, the chancre associated with syphilis can develop into more serious health issues.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Chancre comes from an old word meaning 'crab' and shares the same root as cancer. People long ago thought these sores clung to the skin like a crab, so a chancre is a firm, often painless sore that 'stays' at the site of infection.