chancre
/ˈʃæŋ.kɚ/ noun
Forms chancres
- noun (pathology) Skin lesion, sometimes associated with certain contagious diseases such as syphilis.
Etymology
Borrowed from French chancre (“cancer”), from Latin cancer (“crab”). Cognate to canker and cancer.
Webster’s 1913
- noun 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. Soft chancre. A chancroid. See Chancroid.
Etymology [F. chancere. See Cancer.]
Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “chancre”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details