chancroid Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun infectious venereal ulcer

WordNet

Chan"croid noun
Etymology
Chancre + -oil.
Definitions
  1. (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.

Webster 1913