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In horticulture, canker is a kind of gangrenous disease to which fruit-trees especially are liable, beginning in the younger shoots and gradually extending to the trunk.

In farriery, canker is a disease in horses' feet causing a discharge of fetid matter from the cleft in the middle of the frog, generally originating in a diseased thrush.
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In medicine, a canker is a collection of small sloughing ulcers in the mouth, especially of children. Called also water canker.
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