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YAWS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does yaws mean?
• YAWS (noun)
The noun YAWS has 1 sense:
1. an infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions
Familiarity information: YAWS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
frambesia; framboesia; yaws
Hypernyms ("yaws" is a kind of...):
infectious disease (a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact)
Context examples
Late yaws is characterized by destructive and deforming lesions of the skin, bones, and joints.
(Late Yaws, NCI Thesaurus)
Early yaws includes primary and secondary stages of yaws, endemic tropical treponemal nonvenereal infection: development of initial lesion at inoculation site followed by widespread dissemination of treponemes and generalized secondary granulomatous lesions that may relapse repeatedly.
(Early Yaws, NCI Thesaurus)
Late yaws is the tertiary, non-contagious stage of yaws, endemic tropical treponemal nonvenereal infection.
(Late Yaws, NCI Thesaurus)
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