α. 1600s– chancrous.
β. 1700s shancrous, 1700s shankrous.
chancrousadj.
/ˈʃaŋkrəs/, U.S. /ˈkæŋkrəs/, /ˈʃæŋkrəs/ Medicine. Now rare.
Of, relating to, or of the nature of a chancre; affected with a chancre.In quot. 1972 figurative.
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chancrous1676
chancroid1861
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chancriform1863
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chlamydial1967
1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. viii. iv. 26 Lest you may think I am too strict in giving so many Internals in the Cure of so small an Ulcer as a Chancre, or rather a Chancrous Callus.
1714 D. Turner De Morbis Cutaneis ii. vi. 211 I..snipt up the Prepuce to the very Neck of the Glans, when there came into Sight the Cause of the Malady, a chancrous Callus.
1751 R. Brookes Gen. Pract. Physic II. 347 Turner..found smoaking the parts with Cinnabar successful in Chancrous Ulcerations.
1785 J. Pearson in Med. Communications 2 66 The..true chancrous appearance.
1819 S. Cooper First Lines Pract. Surg. (ed. 4) I. i. xxx. 358 The chancrous ulcer.
1868 Lancet 14 Mar. 350/2 Will a chancrous bubo heal in a week simply by coming in contact with a solution of sulphate of copper?
1913 Lancet 29 Nov. 1585/2 The microscopical (dark ground illumination method) examination of discharge or material from chancrous sores.
1972 Contemp. Lit. 13 206 The mountain world..has been abandoned for the chancrous mountaintops of central Spain.
2004 D. Stuart Dangerous Garden 103 The horror intensified when it was noticed that babies were being born..already chancrous and often with their faces badly deformed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1676