1) An ulceration 2) Become infected with a canker 3) Destroy slowly 4) Infect with a canker 5) Spreading sore 6) Ulcer 7) Ulceration
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Canker and anthracnose generally refer to many different plant diseases of such broadly similar symptoms as the appearance of small areas of dead tissue, which grow slowly, often over years. Some are of only minor consequence, but others are ultimately lethal and therefore of major economic importance in agriculture and horticulture. Their causes ...
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An ulcerous sore of the mouth and lips, not considered fatal today.
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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 be used to refer to the lesion itself, particularl...
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• (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 become venomous. • (n.) A kind of wild, worthle...
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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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An area on soft or rotten woody stems or twigs that is caused by bacteria and fungi.
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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 undermined. ... 3. In man, an outmoded term for a...
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(kang´kәr) an ulceration, especially of the oral mucosa; see also recurrent aphthous stomatitis.
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A fungal disease; affected shoots die back often dark sunken areas on trunk or stems.
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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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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 tree, ... gangrene. Confer also Old French
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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, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous. ...
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Localized, dead, sometimes sunken, portion of the cambium and bark of branches or the bole of a tree, often caused by a pathogen. Many layers of dead callus folds surround some cankers as the tree repeatedly attempts to heal the dead portion, only to have the pathogen kill the callus folds.
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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 even the wall of the hoof may be undermined. See: ...
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An ulcerous sore of the mouth and lips, not considered fatal today. Synonym aphthous stomatitis. See cancrum otis.
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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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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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Chronic overgrowth of the horn-producing tissues of the foot, occurring most commonly in horses housed under unsanitary conditions.
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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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[
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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canker sore noun an ulceration (especially of the lips or lining of the mouth)
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A destructive fungal disease of plants or an open wound in the stem of a tree or plant
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