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Definition of "chancroid" []

  • A soft, highly infectious, nonsyphilitic venereal ulcer of the genital region, caused by the bacillus Hemophilus ducreyi. Also called soft chancre. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "chancroid" in a sentence
  • "= The chancroid plant = causes a very nasty sore, the _chancroid_, which often destroys much flesh and causes buboes."
  • "Some, like ceftriaxone, can be useful for treating sexually transmitted diseases such as chancroid, eye infections in newborns, or gonorrhea that is resistant to penicillin."
  • "This month it was revealed that US academics, funded by the National Institutes of Health, infected mentally incapacitated patients, prisoners, sex workers and soldiers from Guatemala with syphilis, gonorrhoea and chancroid during the 1940s."