Chancroid

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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}.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  chancroid
       n : infectious venereal ulcer