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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The first stage of syphilis, characterized by formation of a painless chancre at the point of infection and hardening and swelling of adjacent lymph nodes.
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- noun the first stage; characterized by a chancre at the site of infection
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