An infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions.
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Examples for "yaws"
Examples for "yaws"
1As he speaks the boat yaws violently and the door bursts open.
2The man with the yaws explained: Dem Belgians make war-palaver often.
3That nigger with the yaws who paddled you up brought down the news.
4So thinking, Anna doesn't see the stone quarry until it yaws before her.
5If it wasn't yaws, it was something else in the Solomons.
1Its synonym, frambesia, is from the French, framboise, a raspberry.
2A positive reaction may be present in other diseases, for example, frambesia, trypanosomiasis, and leprosy.
3Frambesia or yaws was observed in Brazil as early as 1643, and in America later by Lebat in 1722.
1Of childish affections of health, the commonest at this age is yaws (FRAMBOESIA) about the mouth.
Translations for framboesia