Definition of Chancres

1. Noun. (plural of chancre) ¹

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Definition of Chancres

1. chancre [n] - See also: chancre

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chancres

chancers
chancery
chances
chances are
chancest
chanceth
chancey
chancier
chanciest
chancily
chanciness
chancinesses
chancing
chancre
chancre redux
chancres (current term)
chancriform
chancriform syndrome
chancroidal
chancroids
chancrous
chancy
chandelier
chandelier sign
chandeliered
chandelierlike
chandeliers
chandelle

Literary usage of Chancres

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Venereal Disease by John Hunter, Freeman Josiah Bumstead, Ph. Ricord (1859)
"Of Ulcération resembling chancres. It often happens that after chancres are healed, and all the virus gone, the cicatrices ulcerate again, and break out in ..."

2. The Modern Treatment of Syphilitic Diseases: Both Primary and Secondary by Langston Parker (1840)
"Of chancres of the Urethra." 150. The existence of chancres of the ... chancres of the urethra are characterised by the symptoms of gonorrhoea, ..."

3. Clinical lectures on the practice of medicine by Robert James Graves (1864)
"I ¡ ••i CLINICAL MEDICINE. u Spongy chancres (sixth species) were seated on the inner lamella of the prepuce, and sometimes in the angle between the prepuce ..."

4. Syphilis and Public Health by Edward Bright Vedder (1918)
"Extragenital chancres are not necessarily acquired innocently but may be the ... chancres of the mouth, tonsil and rectum are not infrequent following such ..."

5. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1871)
"ON A SERIES OF CASES IN WHICH chancres (?) HAVE FOLLOWED VACCINATION. ... In all, except two, indurated chancres have since developed in the vaccination ..."

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