'Soft chancre' definitions:

Definition of 'Soft chancre'

From: GCIDE
  • Chancre \Chan"cre\, n. [F. chancere. See Cancer.] (Med.) A venereal sore or ulcer; specifically, the initial lesion of true syphilis, whether forming a distinct ulcer or not; -- called also hard chancre, indurated chancre, and Hunterian chancre. [1913 Webster]
  • Soft chancre. A chancroid. See Chancroid. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'soft chancre'

From: GCIDE
  • 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]