The Collaborative International Dictionary
soft chancre
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.
Wiktionary
soft chancre
n. (context pathology English) chancroid (gloss: sexually transmitted disease)
Usage examples of "soft chancre".
But when I escaped from Change Alley, I suddenly didn't like people, big or little, male or female, and headed for the ship--and probably saved myself from pox, Cupid's catarrh, soft chancre, Chinese rot, saltwater itch, and athletes foot--the wisest decision I had made since, at fourteen, I had declined to wrestle a medium-sized alligator.