chancroid, n.
(ˈʃæŋkrɔɪd)
[f. chancre + -oid.]
‘A synonym of soft chancre’: first used by Clerc.
| 1861 Bumstead Ven. Dis. (1879) 339, I adopt the name of ‘chancroid’ to designate the ‘contagious and local ulcer of the genitals’. 1875 tr. Ziemssen's Cycl. Med. III. 104 Hence in Clerc's chancroid there has been no transformation..of the syphilitic poison. |
| attrib. 1878 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. I. 720 Chancroid disease of the rectum. |