Chancre
[ʃæŋkә]
Definition
(noun.) a small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis).
Typist: Loretta--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A venereal sore or ulcer; specifically, the initial lesion of true syphilis, whether forming a distinct ulcer or not; -- called also hard chancre, indurated chancre, and Hunterian chancre.
Checker: Presley
Definition
n. an ulcer arising from the direct application of syphilitic poison.—adjs. Chan′croid Chan′crous.
Edited by Estelle
Examples
- And this hill is like a chancre. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- This hill is truly like a chancre, Sordo thought, and we are the very pus of it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- El Sordo was thinking: It is shaped like a chancre. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But this chancre of a hill. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He did not like this hill and when he saw it he thought it had the shape of a chancre. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Since you are gone we have nothing but frostbites, chilblains, jaundice, gonorrhea, self-inflicted wounds, pneumonia and hard and soft chancres. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
Typed by Agatha