YAWS
\jˈɔːz], \jˈɔːz], \j_ˈɔː_z]\
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an infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions
By Princeton University
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an infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A disease occurring in America, Africa and the West Indies, and almost entirely confined to the African races. It is characterized by cutaneous tumors, numerous and successive, gradually increasing from specks to the size of a raspberry, one at length growing larger than the rest; core a fungous excrescence; fever slight, and probably irritative merely. It is contagious, and cannot be communicated except by the actual contact of yaw matter to some abraded surface, or by inoculation, which is sometimes effected by flies. It is also called FRAMBOESIA, from the French framboise, a raspberry.
By Daniel Lyons
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Syn. : frambesia, gatlor, kwena, lupani, momba, ogodo, pian, polypapilloma::An African term, meaning literally a raspberry, for frambesia; in the sing., yaw, a single efflorescence of the disease. "Daddy," "fadee," "grande," "mama," "master," "moder," and "mother" y. are the large tubercles occurring in the course of the eruption, often at the seat of inoculation. A specific infectious disease occurring in Tropical countries, which is characterized by more or less constitutional disturbance and by the development in the skin of reddish tubercles, capped by a cheesy crust.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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