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UK
/jˈɔːz/
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NOUN
- an infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions
How To Use yaws In A Sentence
- If someone is suffering from yaws or trachoma, of course in your own small way you will try to help.
- In the absence of steerage way, the yacht can't head up; the misplaced center of effort takes charge, and she yaws.
- Salversan also proved effective against other maladies such as yaws.
- There are several varieties of this disease, variously known as framboesia, pian, verrugas, and crab-yaws.
- Yaws (frambesia) is found in humid equatorial countries, where transmission is favored by scanty clothing and skin trauma.
- The most prevalent disease in Rotuma is undoubtedly yaws, or framboesia, known generally under the Fijian name of coko, though I also heard the Polynesian name, tona, applied.
- And that was the area of some of the first campaigns, the mass campaigns for penicillin, the yaws eradication.
- There are several varieties of this disease, variously known as framboesia, pian, verrugas, and crab-yaws.
- Yaws is one form of treponematosis, which also includes the diseases pinta, venereal syphilis, and endemic syphilis or bejel. Yaws Origin
- In addition, endemic diseases, such as yaws, and epidemic diseases, such as measles and smallpox, may have increased the incidence of stillbirths and miscarriages.