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}.
In the study, the researchers found a strong link between AIDS risk and a sexually transmitted ailment called chancroid.
In the United States, the leading causes of genital ulcer disease are herpes, syphilis and chancroid in that order, but in Africa the bacterial infection chancroid is first.
In the United States, the leading causes of genital ulcer disease are herpes, syphilis and chancroid in that order, but in Africa the bacterial infection chancroid is first.