The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Chancroid \Chan"croid\, n. [Chancre + -oil.] (Med.) 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 of a systemic disease; -- called also soft chancre. [1913 Webster]WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
chancroid n 1: infectious venereal ulcer