chancre
noun/ˈʃæŋkə(r)/
/ˈʃæŋkər/
(medical)- an area with an infection on the body that is not painful, especially one on the outer sex organs, caused by diseaseWord Originlate 16th cent.: from French, from Latin cancer ‘creeping ulcer’.
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