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yaws

[ UK /jˈɔːz/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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.
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