chancre
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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.
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Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.
Furthermore, it's an election year for the Guild, pitting lntuitionist candidate Orville Lever against crafty Empiricist Frank Chancre, who has surreptitiously enlisted the muscle of mobster Johnny Shush.
The primary stage classically presents with a single chancre (a firm, painless, non-itchy skin ulceration ) but there may be multiple sores.
Direct testing Dark ground microscopy of serous fluid from a chancre may be used to make an immediate diagnosis.
Lymph node enlargement frequently (80%) occurs around the area of infection, occurring seven to 10 days after chancre formation.
Two other tests can be carried out on a sample from the chancre: direct fluorescent antibody testing and nucleic acid amplification tests.