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Webster 1913 Edition
Chancroid
Chan′croid
,Noun.
[
Chancre
+ -oil
.] (Med.)
A venereal sore, resembling a chancre in its seat and some external characters, but differing from it in being the starting point of a purely local process and never of a systemic disease; – called also
soft chancre
. Definition 2024
chancroid
chancroid
English
Noun
chancroid (plural chancroids)
- (pathology) A sexually transmitted infection, caused by bacteria of species Haemophilus ducreyi , characterized by painful sores on the genitalia.
- A sore characteristic of this infection.