n :  a venereal disease caused by a hemophilic bacterium of the genus Haemophilus (H. ducreyi) and characterized by chancres that differ from those of syphilis in lacking firm indurated margins - called also soft chancre  - see DUCREY'S BACILLUS  chan*croi*dal adj 
 
 
 
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