What's the difference between canker and chancre?

Canker


Definition:

  • (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.

Chancre


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Venereal Disease Research Laboratories (VDRL) and Treponema pallidum hemagglutination (TPHA) tests became positive during hospitalization, and dark-field examination was positive for Treponemas, thus allowing the diagnosis of chancre of the rectum.
  • (2) Provided goats were immunized, it was found that the chancre reaction could be used to distinguish different populations of T. congolense.
  • (3) Local skin reactions (chancres) developed at the sites of inoculation with Trypanosoma evansi in rabbits and calves.
  • (4) Following the tsetse bite, the trypanosomes in the skin multiplied, reaching maximum numbers when the skin reaction (chancre) of the host attained its maximum size.
  • (5) In a preliminary study, two of four rabbits infected with human T-cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I) demonstrated prolonged primary chancres following superinfection with Treponema pallidum, the causative agent of syphilis.
  • (6) A chancre sore was infrequent in children; condylomata lata was the most frequent cutaneous lesion (80.9%).
  • (7) Clinically the patients with abnormal liquor developed multiple chancres, erosive papules, leukoderma, alopecia, neutrophilia; these patients had suffered from various diseases in the past.
  • (8) Certain types such as "chancre mou volant," however, could not be found in the present material.
  • (9) Expression of nine metacyclic variable antigen types (M-VATs) of Trypanosoma congolense in chancres from infected rabbits was determined using monoclonal antibodies raised against metacyclic forms of trypanosomes.
  • (10) After cutaneous inoculation of viable Treponema pallidum subsp pallidum into the skin of chancre-immune or previously uninfected rabbits, organisms move from perivascular connective tissue to localize extracellularly in hair follicles, erector pili muscles, and cutaneous nerves.
  • (11) The first symptom was a lesion, or chancre, in the genital region.
  • (12) A description is given of the structure of the basic cellular elements found in the chancres, particularly the plasma cells since it is in them that the main immunological processes take place.The morphology of the treponemes varies in the course of the pathological process as well as with the type of cell harbouring them.
  • (13) In calves, similar changes were observed although there were fewer trypanosomes present in the chancre and the cellular involvement was less extensive than that seen in the rabbit.
  • (14) In addition, HIV-infected rabbits demonstrate prolonged cutaneous lesions (chancres) after intracutaneous challenge with T. pallidum, the causative agent of syphilis.
  • (15) Sensitization and repetitive elicitation with P. acnes did not change the time of appearance or progression of syphilitic chancres after i.v or i.d.
  • (16) A clinical, bacteriological and serological pictures of 45 patients with chancriform pyoderma are presented, A single ulcer (92.8%), localized on genitals (91.1%) in adult males (93.3%), imitating or very similar to syphilitic primary chancre in our material was observed.
  • (17) A brief introduction on trypanosomiasis in ruminants and an explanation of the term chancre are followed by a discussion of a number of findings on the early pathogenesis of the disease.
  • (18) Local skin reactions (chancres) developed in goats at the sites of deposition, by tsetse flies, of metacyclics of Trypanosoma congolense.
  • (19) A case of primary tuberculous chancre of the vulva is reported.
  • (20) In long-standing chancres cyst-like formations with multi-layered membranes have been found.

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