单词 | soft chancre |
释义 | > as lemmassoft chancre 1. The typical lesion (of the skin or a mucous membrane) found in primary syphilis, which is solitary, painless, round or oval, and firm, with central ulceration. Also: any of various lesions thought to resemble this, esp. (now in full soft chancre) a chancroid.The syphilitic chancre is also called a hard chancre or Hunterian chancre.In quot. 1969 figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun] > a suppuration > abscess > ulcer > of venereal disease dosser1547 buttons of Naples1575 chancrea1585 pock-sore1625 chank1686 pockroyal1694 a1585 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart (Tullibardine) ii. 48 in Poems (2000) I. 145 Þe scheippisch, the schanker [1621 chanker]. 1593 J. Eliot Ortho-epia Gallica xvi. 113 The most expert [Phisicians] of the world in vrines, for they haue brought me out of an ill weeke into an euill yeare, and haue changed me a French Shanker into a double Neapolitan Cancro. 1657 S. Colvil Mock Poem (1751) 50 When..They first brought Shankers ov'r the alps. 1660 J. Howell Θηρολογια 78 When one pisseth drop by drop, Lues Venerea, St. Anthony's Fire, the Chancre, and Botches, &c. 1714 D. Turner De Morbis Cutaneis ii. vi. 206 But if the Illness arise from some latent Chancre, you are to purge off the pocky Virus with some brisk Cathartick. 1737 J. Armstrong Synopsis Hist. & Cure Venereal Dis. 169 The following is an admirable Ointment for removing ulcerous Pustules, Fistulas, and Chankers. 1772 T. Bridges Burlesque Transl. Homer (rev. ed.) xi. 491 Ajax gave him two such spankers, They smarted worse than nodes and shankers. 1829 ‘J. Hinds’ Vet. Surg. (ed. 2) ii. iii. 367 Certain parts of the body [of a horse] are likewise covered with lumps and chancres, which latter characterize the farcy glanders. 1872 J. S. Cohen Dis. Throat 113 Chancres about the lips, tongue, and hard palate, produced by actual contact. 1881 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon (at cited word) According to most modern authorities, this soft chancre or local contagious ulcer, as it is called, is not a syphilitic, although a venereal, disease, the Hunterian or hard chancre being the local manifestation of syphilis. 1928 C. S. Whitehead & C. A. Hoff Ethical Sex Relations (new ed.) i. viii. 307 Chancroid is commonly known as ‘soft chancre’, being a purely local sore, while ‘hard chancre’ is the term applied to the true initial sore or chancre of syphilis. 1937 E. Pound Fifth Decad Cantos I. 49 Talleyrand stank with shanker And hell pissed up Metternich. 1969 H. S. Thompson Let. 19 Nov. in Fear & Loathing in Amer. (2000) 218 The old, Hearst-style journalists had a privileged relationship with power—and they paid for that privilege by keeping a lot of warts and chancres off the public record. 1990 Internat. H & E Monthly 92 No. 2. 6/1 ‘Sex’ was something picked up sneakily in the school lavatories with stories of the pox, ‘shankers’ and other equally revolting things. 2002 W. Kennedy Roscoe 57 Roy came to Roscoe's house to tell him that he had a chancre, a gift from the eighteen-year-old girl he'd been boffing, with modifiers, four times a week. soft chancre soft chancre n. [after French chancre mou (1857 or earlier)] now rare the characteristic ulcerated lesion of the sexually transmitted disease chancroid, which typically is less indurated than the chancre of syphilis; (also) the disease chancroid. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > venereal disease > [noun] > other venereal diseases Winchester goose1598 crystalline1674 chancroid1858 soft chancre1858 soft sore1860 genital herpes1877 genital wart1881 bubo1896 granulomatosis1911 trichomoniasis1915 granuloma inguinale1918 LGV1949 chlamydia1984 1858 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 27 Mar. 250/1 He described the characters of the soft chancre, which was not necessarily..associated with any bubo at all. 1887 H. Raphael tr. H. Zeissl Pathol. & Treatm. Syphilis ii. 116 In the female the soft chancre is most frequently met with upon the labia majora and minora. 1917 Act 7 & 8 Geo. V c. 21 §4 In this Act the expression ‘venereal disease’ means syphilis, gonorrhœa, or soft chancre. 2001 T. T. Provost & J. A. Flynn Cutaneous Med. lvi. 579 Chancroid (soft chancre) is a sexually transmitted disease. < as lemmas |
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