CHANCRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chancre mean? 

• CHANCRE (noun)
  The noun CHANCRE has 1 sense:

1. a small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis)

  Familiarity information: CHANCRE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHANCRE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("chancre" is a kind of...):

sore (an open skin infection)

Holonyms ("chancre" is a part of...):

lues; lues venerea; pox; syph; syphilis (a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta))

deer fly fever; rabbit fever; tularaemia; tularemia; yatobyo (a highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animals)

Derivation:

chancrous (of or having chancres)