What is "chancroid"

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 soft chancre.

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.

n. infectious venereal ulcer

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.