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Chancre   Listen
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Chancre  n.  (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.
Soft chancre. A chancroid. See Chancroid.






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"Chancre" Quotes from Famous Books



... red-hot poker, and I bear the scar still. On leaving school I went to Germany and there had my first coitus with a woman, a fat old German who gave me very little satisfaction. My next, a Jewess, gave me more than I asked for, in the shape of a soft chancre. In my ignorance I never had it treated, but it must have been very mild, for it disappeared of its own accord. When cramming in England I occasionally went home with a prostitute, but did not care much ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis



Words linked to "Chancre" :   sore, tularaemia, syph, chancrous, lues venerea, yatobyo, syphilis, lues, deer fly fever



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