Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Chancre

Chancre , noun

[French chancere. See Cancer.]

(Medicine) 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.
Collocations (1)
Soft chancre , A chancroid. See Chancroid.