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Definition of Chancroid
1. Noun. Infectious venereal ulcer.
Definition of Chancroid
1. 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.
Definition of Chancroid
1. Noun. A sexually transmitted infection characterized by painful sores on the genitalia. ¹
2. Noun. A sore characteristic of this infection. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chancroid
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Chancroid
1. A sexually transmitted disease caused by the bacteria haemophilus ducreyi. Causes multiple painful ulcers on the penis and the vulva often associated with tender and enlarged inguinal lymph nodes. (27 Sep 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chancroid
Literary usage of Chancroid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The venereal diseases, including stricture of the male urethra by Edward Lawrence Keyes (1881)
"Pathological Histology of chancroid; Comparative Histology of Syphilitic ...
Transmission of chancroid to Animals.—Transmission of True Syphilis to Animals. ..."
2. The Surgical diseases of the genito-urinary organs including syphilis by Edward Lawrence Keyes (1889)
"Diagnosis of chancroid.—Prognosis. CUSTOM in America has adopted the name '•'
chancroid " (originated by Clerc) to express that form of contagious venereal ..."
3. Urology: Diseases of the Urinary Organs, Diseases of the Male Genital Organs by Edward Loughborough Keyes (1917)
"chancroid is a specific, local, contagious, auto-infectious venereal ulcer.
It is specific in that it is caused by a specific microorganism, ..."
4. Genitourinary diseases and syphilis by Henry Holdich Morton (1918)
"The etiology of chancroid was, until very recently, involved in obscurity.
There were two views held as to its exciting cause. ..."
5. Preventive medicine and hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau (1917)
"It is impossible to control such epidemics without bacteriological diagnosis
aided by complement fixation tests. chancroid chancroid is a specific, local, ..."
6. Practical Clinical Lessons on Syphilis and the Genito-urinary Diseases by Fessenden Nott Otis (1883)
"chancroid varies in activity. Activity usually corresponds to that from ...
Hence every grade, from typical chancroid to simple excoriation may be met. ..."
7. Surgery, Its Principles and Practice by William Williams Keen (1906)
"chancroid, sometimes called soft chancre, is a venereal ulcer, ... chancroid is
probably due to a specific strepto-bacillus; described by Ducre as short and ..."
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