(n.) 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.
(n.) Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy.
(n.) A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off.
(n.) An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths; -- usually resulting from neglected thrush.
(n.) A kind of wild, worthless rose; the dog-rose.
(v. t.) To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.
(v. t.) To infect or pollute; to corrupt.
(v. i.) To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.
(v. i.) To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aphthous stomatitis (canker sores) is a common cause of recurrent mouth ulceration.
(2) Canker sores and cold sores are common, relatively banal diseases of the oral mucosa and lips, occurring most often in young persons.
(3) Isolates with identical fingerprints occurred in cankers on the same chestnut stems three times; isolates within the other three pairs were isolated from cankers more than 5 m apart.
(4) Romance is fine in books – although even brilliant, bold, spiky Elizabeth is right at the edge of what my cankered soul can tolerate in a love‑blind, lovestruck heroine, and don't get me started on her demented descendant Bridget Jones.
(5) Recurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS) or canker sores occur in 20-60% of all persons.
(6) Three hundred forty five adult arctic foxes (Alopex lagopus) from all counties in Iceland were examined for excess cerumen and ear canker mites (Otodectes cynotis).
(7) A lot of growers have had a lot of scab and canker [due to damp weather], but as you can see we have not had a problem.” The orchards are swept out four times a year, he says, so the fungal infections can’t bloom on fallen apples and leaves and then infect the fruit.
(8) Seven horses with canker had radical surgical debridement and various irritant substances applied to the wounds.
(9) Jesse Norman, Conservative MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire South, told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme that lobbying is a "canker" in politics, and warned that undue influence was often imposed by lobbying groups.
(10) A small RNA species with the structural and functional properties characteristic of viroids has been isolated from three different pear sources each of which induced symptoms of the pear blister canker (PBC) disease when indexed in the pear indicator A 20.
(11) Canker sores, foul breath and even enuresis may occasionally be related to allergies.
(12) Many unusual pathologic conditions, not commonly seen in Western countries, were encountered including canker otis, tuberculous ileitis, and ascaris-induced small bowel obstruction.
(13) The flower of English football is being eaten by canker worms of money and avarice.
(14) Syringomycin, a wide-spectrum antibiotic produced by strains of Pseudomonas syringae which cause bacterial canker of peach, was able to bind to salmon sperm and calf thymus deoxyribonucleic acid but not to calf thymus histone; it also inhibited ribonucleic acid polymerase activity.
(15) Describing the shooting as a “cankerous sore on the soul,” Cornell Brooks, the NAACP national president, told the packed church: “We owe it to this young man to seek justice.” Brooks urged restraint from Ferguson’s young people after several stores were vandalised and looted during rioting late on Sunday.
(16) A stem canker disease caused by Pseudomonas syringae pv.
(17) The diagnosis of a case of ear canker in a dog by bacterial-colony displacement is described.
(18) The pathogenicity gene, pthA, of Xanthomonas citri is required to elicit symptoms of Asiatic citrus canker disease; introduction of pthA into Xanthomonas strains that are mildly pathogenic or opportunistic on citrus confers the ability to induce cankers on citrus (S. Swarup, R. De Feyter, R. H. Brlansky, and D. W. Gabriel, Phytopathology 81:802-809, 1991).
(19) Symptoms of the disease appeared as dry stem cankers which in advanced stages surrounded the stems.
(20) Carbon dioxide laser therapy was used to treat a minor form of the ulcer (canker sore); the laser therapy reduced or eliminated the pain and inflammation with normal wound healing.
Canter
Definition:
(n.) A moderate and easy gallop adapted to pleasure riding.
(n.) A rapid or easy passing over.
(v. i.) To move in a canter.
(v. t.) To cause, as a horse, to go at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter.
(n.) One who cants or whines; a beggar.
(n.) One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language.
Example Sentences:
(1) On another day, and possibly under another referee, Newcastle would have cantered to victory.
(2) Ernest Owusu, 23, sports engineering graduate, from London Ernest Owusu Photograph: Alicia Canter "This is my sixth Glastonbury, I love it here.
(3) It is not impossible this could all be done by the end of April, Leicester of the unbursting bubble not just champions, but champions at a hard-fought canter.
(4) If jet lag has you awake before the market is open for breakfast, you can potter up Fairfax to Canter's, a 24-hour deli that's been a Los Angeles Landmark since 1931.
(5) Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian Winner : Harper Adams University Runner-up : University of Sheffield Runner-up : University of Leicester Research impact Facebook Twitter Pinterest Professor Mary Herbert and Dr Louise Hyslop from Newcastle University with their research impact award for pioneering IVF techniques.
(6) The bookmakers were proved right after Murray cantered to victory.
(7) Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian A very unexpected Glasto anthem I didn't expect Katy Perry's Dark Horse to be the highlight of my Glastonbury, but somewhere in the middle of a very sweaty dance tent at some point in the early hours of Saturday morning, Jamie xx dropped it midway through an already mindblowing DJ set and the place exploded.
(8) Our fans have been through a lot but, hopefully, it will be a special day for them.” Back in December, down on the south coast, Boro ended Brighton’s unbeaten beginning to the season with an emphatic 3-0 victory and looked set to canter away with the title.
(9) Q ranged from 106 (rest) to 571 ml.min-1.kg-1 (canter), and stroke volume went from 1.34 (rest) to a maximum of 1.58 liters (walk).
(10) The young Spaniard, who has deputised at right-back with such aplomb this season, had the confidence to canter goalwards and plant the ball with his left foot into the far corner of the goal.
(11) Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian GPs battle fatalism in neighbourhood with Britain's worst life expectancy Read more Two-thirds of GPs in the south of England said service had deteriorated in the last year – the highest proportion of any part of the country.
(12) Animals running at canter or gallop show major asymmetries between forelimb muscles on the first paw and on the lead paw sides.
(13) It is an assessment that continues to resonate, not just because of who it came from but also because it aptly encapsulates the swaggering brilliance of that Liverpool team, one which having crushed Forest went on to clinch the club's 17th league championship at a canter.
(14) Struggling against the harsh gusts of Lake Michigan, they soon become a blur of chapped noses and sharp tailoring breaking into a canter on Chicago’s Southside.
(15) Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian Winner : Royal Agricultural University Runner-up : University of Edinburgh Runner-up : University of Bristol students’ union Teaching excellence Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sean Mackney, Dr Sharon Edwards and Sam McCormack from Buckinghamshire New University with the award for teaching excellence and Paul Sinha.
(16) The basis of the survey was the inability of horses to take part in cantering exercise as a result of injury or disease.
(17) Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian It is fair to say that Mary is more of an idealist than Arron.
(18) Canter's Background Interference Procedure was designed to increase the sensitivity of the Bender test to the discernment of organic brain damage.
(19) The rate of detection, confirmation, control and follow-up of hypertension in the Canteres Primary Care Center was evaluated two years after the beginning of the hypertension program from a sample of 1219 clinical records.
(20) This study correlated the Canter's Background Interference Procedure (BIP) scores of 141 adult epileptics with the five variables of age at onset of symptoms, etiology, type of symptoms, severity of generalized background dysrhythmia, and locus of lesion.