yaws

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.

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[From American Spanish yaya, sore, from Carib yaya, disease.]

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yaws

Noun

an infectious disease of tropical climates characterized by red skin eruptions [Carib]

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yaws  (yôz)

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.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

yaws - an infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions frambesia, framboesia infectious disease - a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact