YAWS
\jˈɔːz], \jˈɔːz], \j_ˈɔː_z]\
Definitions of YAWS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Frambesia, pian, an infectious disease of the tropics, marked by febrile disturbances, rheumatic pains, and an eruption of aggregated rounded or flattened tubercles capped with a caseous crust; the specific organism is believed to be Treponema pertenue (Spirochoeta pertenuis).
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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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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A disease of African origin, characterized by cutaneoustumours, numerous and successive, swelling into pustules the size of a raspberry, and propagated by the infection of the matter.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A certain contagious disease common in Africa and elsewhere, consisting of eruptions somewhat resembling raspberries.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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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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