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Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Henry Weightman Stelwagon
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- Canker
a gangrenous or ulcerous sore, especially in the mouth. a disease affecting horses’ feet, usually the soles, characterized by a foul-smelling exudate. a defined area of diseased tissue, especially in woody stems. something that corrodes, corrupts, destroys, or irritates. Also called canker rose. British Dialect, dog rose. to infect with canker. to corrupt; destroy slowly. […]
- Cankerroot
goldthread. Historical Examples Ginseng and Other Medicinal Plants A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding
- Cannoneer
an artilleryman. Historical Examples Les Misrables Victor Hugo History of the United Netherlands, 1600-09, Vol. IV. Complete John Lothrop Motley The Barbarians John Sentry In Hostile Red Joseph Altsheler Artillery Through the Ages Albert Manucy In Hostile Red Joseph Altsheler Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-’61 Abner Doubleday The Plays of Philip Massinger […]
- Cankerworm
the striped, green caterpillar of any of several geometrid moths: a foliage pest of various fruit and shade trees, as Paleacrita vernata (spring cankerworm) and Alsophila pometaria (fall cankerworm) Historical Examples Modern Painters, Volume V (of 5) John Ruskin A Treatise on Domestic Economy Catherine Esther Beecher Poor Folk Fyodor Dostoyevsky A Bottle in the […]
- Cankered
morally corrupt. bad-tempered. destroyed or having portions destroyed by the feeding of a cankerworm. having a cankerous part; infected with a canker. ulcerated. a gangrenous or ulcerous sore, especially in the mouth. a disease affecting horses’ feet, usually the soles, characterized by a foul-smelling exudate. a defined area of diseased tissue, especially in woody stems. […]