Cankers

The number of beetle galleries and associated dead bark, called cankers, in a tree is enormous. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It would need a long article to place the reader _au courant_ with the chief results of what is known of these diseases, and I must be content here with the bare statement that these "cankers" are in the main due to local injury or destruction of the cambium. ❋ Various (N/A)

Continuous inspection of the trees, with prompt removal of diseased material, such as cankers and infected branches, following methods recognized as sanitary, and immediate burning will be very helpful in checking the trouble. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Then there is a class of diseases which commence in the bark or cortex of trees, and extend thence into the cambium and timber: some of these "cankers," as they are often called, are proved to be due to the ravages of fungi, though there is another series of apparently similar "cankers" which are caused by variations in the environment -- the atmosphere and weather generally. ❋ Various (N/A)

Pathogens usually leave some kind of evidence behind, such as cankers, rot or leaf spot. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Now, in "cankers" this is -- put shortly -- what happens: it may be, and often is, due to the local action of a parasitic fungus; or it may be, and, again, often is, owing to injuries produced by the weather, in the broad sense, and saprophytic organisms may subsequently invade the wounds. ❋ Various (N/A)

Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes it with so silent, yet so baneful a tooth, as indolence. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

They've developed a treatment that is simultaneously high - and low-tech: After scientists identified a few key viral strains, volunteers such as Essie Burnworth cooked up a hypo-virulent soup in her Potomac home to inject into the cankers of affected American chestnuts. ❋ Juliet Eilperin (2010)

It started off with a pair of cankers inside my upper lip, ordinary enough, pressed like marbles against the gum. ❋ Neil Serven (2011)

I remember Dad naming things – ash trees, early purple orchids, cankers, pheasants – but he wasn't like Mum, a natural teacher with an informative style from whom I learned all kinds of geographical facts. ❋ Patrick Barkham (2010)

Seemed like everyone and everything was at the threshold of being put out to grass, with such cankers abound in the kingdom. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Exposed fruits can develop horrible cankers from direct sunlight, and they should be grown shaded by their own leaves. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Wail about your bunions and crookbacks and autisms and hemroids and childhoods and cankers and bad touches and popes and whatever other worthless excuses float your coffin - you are still doomed to burn forever in eternal hellfire unless you man up and believe in what the Bibo Sez. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Like other mission wives, she did what she could to treat the sores, boils, cankers, ulcerated and gangrenous limbs, the infections and contagious diseases contracted by people who drank the polluted waters of the river, and worked waist-deep in the flooded rice fields. ❋ Hilary Spurling (2010)

Jackson flaunts his contempt for what he remembers as a “rather dull student” and says, “One of the cankers of our profession is the number of youths without funds or proper background who try to worm their way into it for the rich rewards they imagine it holds.” ❋ Nathan Rabin (2010)

The fungus penetrates pine needles, then covers branches with clamshell-shaped cankers and orange pustules, eventually girdling tree trunks. ❋ Unknown (2010)

 Those cankers at social services — their searches were no better than their care. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It's all repetitive injuries, ailments, cankers on existence that refuse to heal! ... ❋ Unknown (2010)

[Roger] stopped to pick up a prostitute for a blow on the way home but the street [walkers] out that night were way to Cankerous so he just went home and gave it [a wank]. ❋ Eaton Holgoode (2015)

Stan: What's up Carl. Are you seriously going to go out with Jane? Carl: Yea broooohhhh. I be getting me some a dat! Stan: You and about six [dozen] others brooohhhh! That chick is [cankered]. Wear a [sock] braaahhhh. Wear a sock! ❋ Eaton Holgoode (2015)

[Oh damn], i shouldnt've [eaten] that un-washed [apple]! I think i got a canker. ❋ Charlotte45 (2006)

verb: That is so cankered out. [adj]: That bitch has been round [the block], and damn, she is cankered. noun: What a fucking [canker]... ❋ TDeucez (2005)

put my [finger up] my [nose] and [pulled out] a canker ❋ Crowtatt (2006)

Damn get a load of that canker on his lip! Hey, don't go down tonight, [hon]...I have a [big nasty] canker on my [puss]. ❋ Nixontrix (2005)

[canker] [sores] [suck]..... ❋ Bobby De Niro (2005)

Damn! [Lexie's] a total Canker Beast. I can see the [VD] [falling out] of her mouth ❋ Jay-Rome (2006)

[Fucking hell] [another] [canker sore] ❋ WILODR (2021)

That canker blossom [gave] me the [scratchies]. ❋ SubmitNow (2012)