canker

There was citrus canker, a viral infection that had plagued citrus for years prior to the arrival of greening.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

As humans, we are nothing if not fascinated by our own bodies, whether that’s picking a scab, prodding a canker sore or popping a pimple.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2024

“There is a canker that Miss Havisham has allowed, welcomed even, in her heartbreak and desire for revenge.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2023

Health officials cautioned the public that prolonged direct contact with radioactive material can cause skin rashes, hair loss, canker sores, fatigue, and vomiting.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2023

I guess I developed some kind of canker sores in my intestines because of the Merrick’s, and filth leaked out into the rest of my body.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson

The blight precipitated an insidious acid in the American chestnut trees, and gnawed grievous cankers into their woody trunks.

From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2023

Cut out the cankers below where you see wilting/discolored tissue and above a node.

From Seattle Times ● May 23, 2022

He was curled up in a ball in pain, with bloody diarrhoea, a fever, cankers in his mouth, a rash on his face and boils on his legs.

From BBC ● May 26, 2014

She points out signs of stress on nearby trunks, splotches of disease, bark splitting into ugly cankers.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 7, 2012

In 1904, a keeper at the Bronx Zoo in New York noticed that the zoo’s handsome chestnuts had become covered in small orange cankers of an unfamiliar type.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson