(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.
Horny
Definition:
(superl.) Having horns or hornlike projections.
(superl.) Composed or made of horn, or of a substance resembling horn; of the nature of horn.
(superl.) Hard; callous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Digestion of cytoplasmic components of horny cells was observed by electron microscopy, but both cell membranes and desmosomes remained intact.
(2) Strains of C. albicans differing in their abilities to secrete proteinase in vitro and to produce germ tube were inoculated onto the skin surface of newborn mice, and the invasion of the yeast cells into the horny layer was examined by histological techniques.
(3) Morphologic features of Malassezia(M.) furfur in the horny layer from clinical lesions of tinea versicolor were examined by scanning electron microscopy and compared with the appearance of fungus in the horny layer from normal skin and in culture.
(4) The absolute concentrations of 8-Methoxypsoralen were estimated in the horny layer, epidermis and dermis.
(5) In the next stage, the roof consisting of the malpighian layers is disrupted, and the vesicular fluid comes into contact with the horny layer.
(6) The systematic evaluation of the original curves takes into consideration amplitude, angle of climb and medium route and results in a horny layer sample-obtained successively from one and the same horny layer strip-series test area-impressioned by individual and regional horny layer conditions.
(7) The nature of the horny layer which, as the uppermost barrier takes over the main part of the protective function of the skin against all locally applied substances, is shortly outlined.
(8) Removal of the horny layer decreased epidermal IL 1-like activity.
(9) The superficial dermis contained horny cysts, similar to those present on the cheeks.
(10) Munro's microabscess under the horny layer also included IFN-gamma producing cells.
(11) The fluid was obtained from the skin surface of female mongrel dogs by transcutaneous suction after removal of the horny substance.
(12) The mockery continued when he noted semi-automatics had only two purposes: to kill people, and to let their owners go to a shooting range, "yell yeehaw, and get all horny at the rapid fire and the burning vapor spurting from the end of the barrel".
(13) In both sites the plasma membranes of the horny cells were thickened and there was a cytoplasmic meshwork of microfibrils in the cells.
(14) Epithelial cells changing from the granular stage of differentiation to the horny stage are more numerous, and reveal sequential events of transformation in finer detail in the rumen epithelium than in other keratinizing epithelia thus far studied in the electron microscope.
(15) Yet there is Samantha, bawdy as the Wife of Bath, always cheerfully horny and materialistic, utterly without Calvinic redeeming qualities, living at last with her devoted younger boy toy in LA in the Sex and the City movie – finally leaving him because she is just not cut out to mix her driving, unmediated sexual energy with commitment.
(16) "Before you hit puberty, you have this growing, really urgent sense of horniness."
(17) This reflected enhanced permeability resulting from reduction of the horny layer to less than one-half its normal thickness.
(18) Remaining reactivity with antibodies, but not lectins, was almost completely abolished immediately before the final disintegration of the desmosome structure in the lower horny layer.
(19) The calcified concretions are also seen in the lymphatic capillaries, the intraepidermal sweat ducts and horny layer; at a site they perforate the epidermis and penetrate in a sweat pore.
(20) Elastic fibres were prominent in the upper dermis, the lower levels of the epidermis and in the hyperkeratotic horny layer.