Chancre - Law Dictionary Search Results
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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...
Chancroid
A venereal sore resembling a chancre in its seat and some external characters but differing from it in being the starting point of a purely local process and never of a systemic disease called also soft chancre...
Chancrous
Of the nature of a chancre having chancre...
Hunterian
Discovered or described by John Hunter an English surgeon as the Hunterian chancre See Chancre...
Shanker
See Chancre...
Venereal disease
Venereal disease. The (English) Venereal Disease Act, 1917, prohibits the treatment of venereal disease otherwise than by a duly qualified medical practitioner. Advertisement o cures, treatment, etc., is prohibited except when made to duly qualified medical practitioners or chemists or by public authorities. Venereal disease is defined as meaning syphilis, gonorrh'a, or soft chancre, and see INFECTIOUS DISEASES; Public Health Acts, 1875-1936; Local Government Acts, 1929 and 1933. See also SLANDER and CRUELTY. [Referred, Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (25 of 1955), s. 13(1)(v)]...
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