Infectious venereal ulcer

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Chancroid \Chan"croid\, n. [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 ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. infectious venereal ulcer

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Chancroid (also known as soft chancre and ulcus molle ) is a bacterial sexually transmitted infection characterized by painful sores on the genitalia. Chancroid is known to spread from one individual to another solely through sexual contact.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context pathology English) A sexually transmitted infection caused by (taxlink Haemophilus ducreyi species noshow=1) bacteria, characterized by painful sores on the genitalia. 2 A sore characteristic of this infection.