Look up: canker

1. Canker
   An area on soft or rotten woody stems or twigs that is caused by bacteria and fungi.
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2. canker
   An imprecise term usually used for a plant disease characterized (in woody plants) by the death of cambium tissue and resulting loss and/or malformation of bark, or (in non-woody plants) by the formation of sharply delineated, dry, necrotic, localized lesions on the stem. The term 'canker' may also ...
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3. canker
   [n] - an ulceration (especially of the lips or living of the mouth) 2. [v] - become infected with a canker 3. [v] - infect with a canker
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4. Canker
   Any skin ulcer or sore but as the derivation of the word is the same as that for cancer it may suggest skin cancer - Cancrum oris - Scarlet Fever
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5. Canker
   an ulcerous sore of the mouth and lips. Possibly includes herpes simplex infections commonly known as cold sores. Synonym: aphthous stomatitis. See cancrum otis. It seems to have the same meaning and origin as cancer, but denotes bad qualities in a lesser degree.
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6. canker
   in a tree,a definite,relatively localised,necrotic lesion,primarily of the bark and cambium Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
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7. Canker
   Can'ker (kăn'kẽr) noun [ Middle English canker , cancre , Anglo-Saxon cancer (akin to Dutch kanker , OHG chanchar .), from Latin cancer a cancer; or if a native word, confer Greek ... excrescence on...
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8. Canker
   Can'ker (kăn'kẽr) transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Cankered (- kẽrd); present participle & verbal noun Cankering .] 1. To affect as a canker; to eat...
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9. Canker
   Can'ker intransitive verb 1. To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral. [ Obsolete] « Silvering will sully and canker more than gliding. Bacom. » 2. To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, ...
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10. canker
    1. In cats and dogs, acute inflammation of the external ear and auditory canal. ... See: aphtha. ... 2. In the horse, a process similar to but more advanced than thrush; the horny frog is generally under-run with a whitish, cheeselike exudate, and the entire sole and even the wall of the hoof may be...
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11. canker
    canker sore noun an ulceration (especially of the lips or lining of the mouth)
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12. canker
    verb infect with a canker
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13. canker
    (kang´kәr) an ulceration, especially of the oral mucosa; see also recurrent aphthous stomatitis.
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14. Canker
    • (n.) An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse`s foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths; -- usually resulting from neglected thrush. • (v. i.) To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to be...
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15. canker
    disease of plants that is caused by numerous species of fungi and bacteria. Symptoms include round-to-irregular, sunken, swollen, flattened, or ...
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16. canker
    Type: Term Pronunciation: kang′ker Definitions: 1. In cats and dogs, acute inflammation of the external ear and auditory canal. 2. In the horse, a process similar to but more advanced than thrush. The horny frog is generally underrun with a whitish, cheeselike exudate, and the entire sole and ...
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17. Canker
    A fungal disease; affected shoots die back often dark sunken areas on trunk or stems.
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18. canker
    canker, small sore on the inside of the mouth. A canker appears as a shallow, whitish ulcer surrounded by a thin, red area. It is tender, sometimes painful, and may occur singly or as one of a group of sores. Cankers develop on the inner surfaces of the lips or cheeks, on the gums, under the tongue,...
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19. Canker
    In horticulture, canker is a kind of gangrenous disease to which fruit-trees especially are liable, beginning in the younger shoots and gradually extending to the trunk.
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20. Canker
    In medicine, a canker is a collection of small sloughing ulcers in the mouth, especially of children. Called also water canker.
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21. CANKER
    Chronic overgrowth of the horn-producing tissues of the foot, occurring most commonly in horses housed under unsanitary conditions.
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22. Canker
    An ulcerous sore of the mouth and lips, not considered fatal today. Synonym aphthous stomatitis. See cancrum otis.
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23. Canker
    An ulcerous sore of the mouth and lips, not considered fatal today.
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24. Canker
    `Canker` and `anthracnose` are general terms for a large number of different plant diseases, characterised by broadly similar symptoms including the appearance of small areas of dead tissue, which grow slowly, often over a period of years. Some are of only minor consequence, but others are ultimatel...
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