Definitions for chancres

chancres chan·cre

Spelling: [shang-ker]
IPA: /ˈʃæŋ kər/

Chancres is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 261 anagrams from letters in chancres (accehnrs).

Definitions for chancres

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 chancres

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

Examples for chancres

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for chancres
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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