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Chancre

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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Sore 76% connected

Reddish brown; sorrel.

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Chancrous 74% connected

Of the nature of a chancre; having chancre.

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Chancrous 74% connected

Of the nature of a chancre; having chancre.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Lues 70% connected

Disease, especially of a contagious kind.

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Pox 70% connected

Strictly, a disease by pustules or eruptions of any kind, but chiefly or wholly restricted to three or four diseases, -- the smallpox, the chicken po…

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Syphilis 70% connected

The pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific, infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and…

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