sore

An ulcer or any painful or tender lesion on the surface of the body, bed s. Gangrene of the skin or of deeper ti ues, due to prolonged pre ure, cold s. See herpes facial is, under herpes, hard S., infecting s. See syphilitic chancre, under chancre. Kandahar s. See under Kandahar. Lahore s., Moultan s. See Oriental sore. Natal s. See veld s. Oriental s. Of Tilbury Fox, any one of the diseases occurring in the East which have the general characters of Aleppo and Delhi boil, Biskra button, etc. soft venereal s. See chancroid, veld s. A form of s. observed in southern Africa. It begins as a minute vesicle, which soon bursts and is succeeded by spreading vesication and ulceration with an erythematous border, often accompanied by lymphangitis and fever; attributed by A. Ogston to Micrococcus campaneus. [Old Eng., sore, save, sor, sar.li