chances
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Here are ladies' noses eaten away at by chancres, or gentlemen's foreheads and cheeks covered with warty excrescences.
From The Guardian • Jun. 2, 2014
Extra-genital chancres, e.g. sores on the fingers of doctors or nurses, are specially liable to be overlooked, if the possibility of syphilis is not kept in mind.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
The irritation of the discharge may ulcerate the lining mucous membrane of the nose, causing serpentine gutters with bottoms resembling those of the chancres themselves.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.
On healing, the chancres on the mucous membranes leave small, whitish, star-shaped scars, hard and indurated to the touch, and which remain for almost an indefinite time.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.
He observes exostoses and ulcers, membranous sores, tubercular chancres, atrocious caries.
From Là-bas by Wallace, Keene
