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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: French, from Old French, from Latin cancer Date: circa 1605 a primary sore or ulcer at the site of entry of a pathogen (as in tularemia); especially the initial lesion of syphilis • chancrous adjective

Britannica Concise

Primary sore or ulcer at the site of entry of a pathogen; specifically, the typical skin lesion of primary infectious syphilis. In women, it is often internal and may go unnoticed. This single red papule (bump), usually occurring about three weeks after infection, and painless regional lymph-node swelling are the major signs of early-stage syphilis. Identification of Treponema pallidum in its fluid makes the diagnosis. The chancre heals in two to six weeks, but syphilis progresses unless treated with penicillin.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a painless ulcer developing in venereal disease etc. Etymology: F f. L CANCER

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. Soft chancre. A chancroid. See Chancroid.

Moby Thesaurus

French disease, Spanish pox, VD, abscess, acquired syphilis, aposteme, balanitis gangrenosa, bed sore, blain, bleb, blister, boil, bubo, bulla, bunion, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, cerebral tabes, chancroid, chilblain, clap, claps, climatic bubo, cold sore, congenital syphilis, constitutional syphilis, dose, dose of clap, eschar, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, fifth venereal disease, fistula, furuncle, furunculus, gathering, general paresis, gonorrhea, granuloma inguinale, granuloma venereum, great pox, gumboil, hard chancre, hemorrhoids, kibe, latent syphilis, lesion, locomotor ataxia, morbus Gallicus, papula, papule, paralytic dementia, paresis, paronychia, parulis, petechia, piles, pimple, pock, polyp, pox, pudendal ulcer, pustule, rising, scab, simple chancre, social disease, soft chancre, sore, stigma, sty, suppuration, swelling, syph, syphilis, syphilitic meningoencephalitis, tabes, tabes dorsales, tertiary syphilis, tropical bubo, tubercle, ulcer, ulceration, venereal disease, wale, welt, wheal, whelk, whitlow, wound