Chancroid

{shang’-kroid) {chancre; eMoc, form]. A local, infec tive proce trans mitted by sexual intercourse, and characterized t, by ulceration, local glandular involve men and often suppuration. It has been variously termed the soft, non-indurated, simple, or non syphilitic chancre. See Chancre. C, Phagedenic, chancroid with a tendency to slough. C., Serpiginous, a variety of the last that spreads superficially in curved lines. 185