'Chancre' definitions:
Definition of 'chancre'
(from WordNet)
noun
A small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis)
Definition of 'Chancre'
From: GCIDE
- Chancre \Chan"cre\, n. [F. chancere. See Cancer.] (Med.) 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. [1913 Webster]
- Soft chancre. A chancroid. See Chancroid. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'chancre'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abscess,
- acquired syphilis,
- aposteme,
- balanitis gangrenosa,
- bed sore,
- blain,
- bleb,
- blister,
- boil,
- bubo,
- bulla,
- bunion,
- canker,
- canker sore,
- carbuncle,
- cerebral tabes,
- chancroid,
- chilblain,
- clap,
- claps,
- climatic bubo,
- cold sore,
- congenital syphilis,
- constitutional syphilis,
- dose,
- dose of clap,
- eschar,
- felon,
- fester,
- festering,
- fever blister,
- fifth venereal disease,
- fistula,
- French disease,
- furuncle,
- furunculus,
- gathering,
- general paresis,
- gonorrhea,
- granuloma inguinale,
- granuloma venereum,
- great pox,
- gumboil,
- hard chancre,
- hemorrhoids,
- kibe,
- latent syphilis,
- lesion,
- locomotor ataxia,
- morbus Gallicus,
- papula,
- papule,
- paralytic dementia,
- paresis,
- paronychia,
- parulis,
- petechia,
- piles,
- pimple,
- pock,
- polyp,
- pox,
- pudendal ulcer,
- pustule,
- rising,
- scab,
- simple chancre,
- social disease,
- soft chancre,
- sore,
- Spanish pox,
- stigma,
- sty,
- suppuration,
- swelling,
- syph,
- syphilis,
- syphilitic meningoencephalitis,
- tabes,
- tabes dorsales,
- tertiary syphilis,
- tropical bubo,
- tubercle,
- ulcer,
- ulceration,
- VD,
- venereal disease,
- wale,
- welt,
- wheal,
- whelk,
- whitlow,
- wound