soft chancre

American

noun

Pathology.

chancroid.

soft chancre British

noun

Also called: chancroid. pathol a venereal ulcer caused by an infection with the bacillus Haemophilus ducrey that is not syphilitic

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Etymology

Origin of soft chancre

First recorded in 1855–60

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Soft chancre is the least dangerous and the least common of the three diseases.

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Soft Chancre.—The third kind of venereal disease is the soft chancre, thus called in distinction to hard chancre, which is the primary sore of syphilis.

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Other venereal infections may of course also occur in children, such as soft chancre and syphilis.

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Chancroid or Soft Chancre.—This is the least dangerous of the venereal diseases.

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Chancroid or Soft Chancre 78 b.

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