yaws
(yôz)pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb)
A highly contagious tropical disease that chiefly affects children, caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue and characterized by raspberrylike sores, especially on the hands, feet, and face. Also called frambesia.
[From American Spanish yaya, sore, from Carib yaya, disease.]
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yaws
(jɔːz)n
(Pathology) (usually functioning as singular) an infectious nonvenereal disease of tropical climates with early symptoms resembling syphilis, characterized by red skin eruptions and, later, pain in the joints: it is caused by the spiral bacterium Treponema pertenue. Also called: framboesia
[C17: of Carib origin]
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yaws
(yɔz)n. (used with a sing. v.)
an infectious tropical disease, primarily of children, characterized by raspberrylike eruptions of the skin and caused by a spirochete, Treponema pertenue. Also called frambesia.
[1670–80; < Jamaican Creole]
yaw′ey, adj.
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| Noun | 1. |  yaws - an infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesionsinfectious disease - a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact |
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Translations
yaws
n sing → Frambösie f
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yaws
n pian m, frambesiaEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.