See Also: Chancre(medicine)
chancre(dictionary)
Chancre(health)
chancre(encyclopedia)
monorecidive chancre(medicine)
mixed chancre(medicine)
sporotrichositic chancre(medicine)
tularaemic chancre(medicine)
hard chancre(medicine)
chancre redux(medicine)

chancre (iou)



chancre noun. L16.
[French, from Latin CANCER noun: cf. CANKER noun.]
Medicine. A painless ulcer, esp. one occurring on the genitals and resulting from syphilis.
soft chancre = chancroid noun.
chancroid noun & adjective (of) a venereal infection with the bacterium Haemophilus ducreyi causing enlarged, ulcerated lymph nodes of the groin (also called
soft sore) M19.
chancrous adjective (now rare or obsolete) M18.