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Definition of Chancres
1. chancre [n] - See also: chancre
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chancres
Literary usage of Chancres
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Venereal Disease by John Hunter, Freeman Josiah Bumstead, Ph. Ricord (1859)
"Of Ulcération resembling chancres. It often happens that after chancres are
healed, and all the virus gone, the cicatrices ulcerate again, and break out in ..."
2. The Modern Treatment of Syphilitic Diseases: Both Primary and Secondary by Langston Parker (1840)
"Of chancres of the Urethra." 150. The existence of chancres of the ... chancres of
the urethra are characterised by the symptoms of gonorrhoea, ..."
3. Clinical lectures on the practice of medicine by Robert James Graves (1864)
"I ¡ ••i CLINICAL MEDICINE. u Spongy chancres (sixth species) were seated on the
inner lamella of the prepuce, and sometimes in the angle between the prepuce ..."
4. Syphilis and Public Health by Edward Bright Vedder (1918)
"Extragenital chancres are not necessarily acquired innocently but may be the ...
chancres of the mouth, tonsil and rectum are not infrequent following such ..."
5. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1871)
"ON A SERIES OF CASES IN WHICH chancres (?) HAVE FOLLOWED VACCINATION. ... In all,
except two, indurated chancres have since developed in the vaccination ..."
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