cancrum
[kăng′krəm]
n. pl. can•cra (-krə)
A gangrenous, ulcerative, inflammatory lesion.
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It is there described under the erroneous title of cancrum oris.
Cancrum is an odd grammatical blunder; being, in reality, nothing but the accusative of Cancer, put instead of the nominative.