Chancroid

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A soft, highly infectious, nonsyphilitic venereal ulcer of the genital region, caused by the bacillus Hemophilus ducreyi. Also called soft chancre.
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  • n. A sexually transmitted infection characterized by painful sores on the genitalia.
  • n. A sore characteristic of this infection.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Resembling a chancre.
  • n. A virulent ulcer, almost always situated on the genitals, and communicated in sexual intercourse by contact of its pus, usually with a breach of surface.
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  • n. infectious venereal ulcer
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    ulceration    ulcer   
    Variant
    soft chancre   
     
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