(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.
Thrush
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of singing birds belonging to Turdus and allied genera. They are noted for the sweetness of their songs.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of singing birds more or less resembling the true thrushes in appearance or habits; as the thunderbird and the American brown thrush (or thrasher). See Brown thrush.
(n.) An affection of the mouth, fauces, etc., common in newly born children, characterized by minute ulcers called aphthae. See Aphthae.
(n.) An inflammatory and suppurative affection of the feet in certain animals. In the horse it is in the frog.
Example Sentences:
(1) Such infections have included Pneumocystis carinii, oral thrush from Candida albicans, cytomegalovirus, atypical mycobacteria, cryptosporidium, and Herpes simplex virus.
(2) They range from relatively trivial conditions such as oral and genital thrush to fatal, systemic superinfections in patients who are already seriously ill with other diseases.
(3) The disease implies a congenital intrauterine infection and is different from neonatal candidiasis which manifests as thrush, diaper dermatitis.
(4) Eczema and wheezing occurred to a similar extent in the two groups during the first year of life, although napkin rash, diarrhoea, and oral thrush were commoner in the intervention group, especially during the first three months.
(5) The occurrence of symptoms (including fatigue, fever, night sweats, unintentional weight loss, diarrhea, joint pains, cough unrelated to smoking, shortness of breath, oral thrush, herpes zoster and rash) did not increase with seroconversion.
(6) Baby song thrushes were seen in less than 4% of gardens, compared with more than 5% last year, young blackbirds were spotted in 37% of gardens, down from 44% in 2011 and 19% of gardens had fledgling robins compared to 23% in the previous survey.
(7) Especially antenatal patients in the last trimestre are a high risk group because of the possibility of neonatal thrush.
(8) One can distinguish between oral thrush, denture stomatitis, angular cheilitis, leukoplakia and midline glossitis.
(9) Herpes zoster, oral thrush, diarrhoea, tuberculosis, and weight loss were independently correlated with seropositivity.
(10) Oral candidiasis, commonly known as thrush, is the most common fungal infection among AIDS and AIDS Related Complex patients, occurring in 80-90% of cases.
(11) In addition, prophylaxis is often initiated if thrush is present, even when CD4 cell counts are above 200.
(12) These findings suggest that, although treatment with beclomethasone dipoprionate aerosol undoubtedly can cause oropharyngeal thrush, this condition is not an inevitable result of colonization of the oropharynx by yeasts, nor is it necessarily associated with symptoms.
(13) With the adults spending longer away from the nest searching for food, the chicks may also have been more exposed to the chilly, wet conditions, in particular for species like blackbirds and thrushes whose nests are open to the elements.
(14) Because of the localisation and probable pathogenesis we have coined the term "Windelsoor" (diaper thrush) for it.
(15) The substance has been very useful for the treatment of mouth- and diaper-thrush.
(16) Among seropositive persons, lymphadenopathy was a highly significant short-term as well as long-term consequence, whereas diarrhea, oral thrush, and herpes zoster were correlated with long-term seropositivity.
(17) No significant association was found between the defect in anti-PPS antibody response and associated thrush or constitutional symptoms or other immunological parameters.
(18) Persistent clinical oral candidiasis (thrush) was observed in 15 to 27 control group patients (56%), but only transiently in two (8%) of 24 patients who used chlorhexidine rinse (p less than 0.001).
(19) Stages WR1-6 show ascending degrees of disease, so that those classified in WR6 manifest antibodies to HTLV-III, chronic lymphadenopathy, T helper cell counts below the normal limit, delayed hypersensitivity, thrush, and opportunistic infection.
(20) After 1 week thrush had developed beneath the plates of all monkeys.