A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; -- called also water canker, canker of the mouth, and noma.
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Infected. Cf. Enfect.
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A flowing in or upon; influx.
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To make sick; to disease.
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A solution of continuity in any of the soft parts of the body, discharging purulent matter, found on a surface, especially one of the natural surface…
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The process of forming an ulcer, or of becoming ulcerous; the state of being ulcerated; also, an ulcer.
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Affecting like a canker.
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Affecting like a canker.
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Pestilential; noxious; pernicious; mischievous.
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Pestilential; noxious; pernicious; mischievous.
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Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating.
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