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CHANCRE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("chancre" is a kind of...):
sore (an open skin infection)
Holonyms ("chancre" is a part of...):
lues; lues venerea; pox; syph; syphilis (a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta))
deer fly fever; rabbit fever; tularaemia; tularemia; 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)
Derivation:
chancrous (of or having chancres)
