Definitions for chancre

chancre chan·cre

Spelling: [shang-ker]
IPA: /ˈʃæŋ kər/

Chancre is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 130 anagrams from letters in chancre (accehnr).

Definitions for chancre

noun

  1. the initial lesion of syphilis and certain other infectious diseases, commonly a more or less distinct ulcer or sore with a hard base.

Origin of chancre

1595-1605; Middle French ≪ Latin cancrum, accusative of cancer cancer

Examples for chancre

The essential symptoms of glanders are the nodule, the chancre, the glands, and the discharge.

It may be a chancre, and it may be exceedingly serious if not properly diagnosed.

It is found especially on men who have suffered from gonorrha or chancre.

chancre, shang′kėr, n. an ulcer arising from the direct application of syphilitic poison.

The period of primary incubation, or the time from infection to the appearance of the chancre.

In about six weeks after the chancre the so-called secondary symptoms make their appearance.

The disease is already systemic, or constitutional, and the chancre is the local expression of a constitutional disease.

He was alarmed lest a minute pimple on his chin should develop into a chancre.

Cutting out the chancre will not cure the disease, because, as stated, the germs are already in the system.

The chancre disappears in a few weeks and then there is a period when the individual has no outward manifestations of the disease.

Word Value for chancre
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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