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