soft chancre

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soft chancre - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Chancre \Chan"cre\, n. [F. chancere. See Cancer.] (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.
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     Soft chancre. A chancroid. See Chancroid.
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  Chancroid \Chan"croid\, n. [Chancre + -oil.] (Med.)
     A venereal sore, resembling a chancre in its seat and some
     external characters, but differing from it in being the
     starting point of a purely local process and never of a
     systemic disease; -- called also soft chancre.
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