ˈshaŋ.ˌkrȯid noun
( -s )
Etymology: French chancroïde, from chancre + -oïde -oid
: 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 a systemic disease and in being caused by a different microorganism ( Hemophilus ducreyi ) — called also soft chancre
• chan·croi·dal (ˈ) ̷ ̷|krȯid ə l adjective