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CHANCROID
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Dictionary entry overview: What does chancroid mean?
• CHANCROID (noun)
The noun CHANCROID has 1 sense:
1. infectious venereal ulcer
Familiarity information: CHANCROID used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Infectious venereal ulcer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("chancroid" is a kind of...):
ulcer; ulceration (a circumscribed inflammatory and often suppurating lesion on the skin or an internal mucous surface resulting in necrosis of tissue)
Derivation:
chancroidal (of or relating to or having chancroids)
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