sb. [f. CHANCRE + -OID.] ‘A synonym of soft chancre’: first used by Clerc.
1861. Bumstead, Ven. Dis. 339. I adopt the name of ‘chancroid’ to designate the ‘contagious and local ulcer of the genitals.’
1875. trans. 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.
