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語源

Borrowed from French chancre (“cancer”), from Latin cancer (“crab”). Cognate to canker and cancer.

発音

• IPA: /ˈʃæŋ.kɚ/
• 韻: -æŋkə(ɹ)

名詞

chancre (plural chancres)

1. (pathology) Skin lesion, sometimes associated with certain contagious diseases such as syphilis.
   • 1942, Albert Camus, 'The Stranger' (a.k.a 'The Outsider'), Joseph Laredo translation, Ch.1:

     The nurse stood up and went towards the door. At that point the caretaker said to me, "It's a chancre she's got." I didn't understand, so I looked at the nurse and saw that she had a bandage round her head just below the eyes. Where her nose should have been, the bandage was flat. Her face seemed to be nothing but a white bandage.

   • 1981 February 14, Robert Taylor, “Stages Of Syphilis”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 29, page 17:

     If the primary stage is not treated the chancre will disappear after four to eight weeks but remember that the germ is still in the body.

   • 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 97:

     As Hiro approaches, Vitaly watches his sword uncertainly. Vitaly's eyes are dry and red, and on his lower lip he is sporting a chancre the size of a tangerine.

派生語

関連する語

• canker

アナグラム

• chancer