单词 | craw-craw |
释义 | craw-crawn. Pathology. A malignant species of pustulous itch, prevalent on the African coast, especially about Sierra Leone. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > yaws pian1625 yaws1679 crab yaws1740 framboesia1782 parangi1821 craw-craw1863 Barcoo rot1889 jungle rot1944 1803 T. Winterbottom Acct. Native Africans Sierra Leone II. 164 Kra-kra is an Ebo word, corrupted from kra-thra which signifies the itch. 1863 Wanderings in W. Africa II. 93 A bad kind of scabies, commonly called craw-craw..not confined to mankind; goats and other animals often die of it. 1891 Nature 20 Aug. A papulo-vesicular skin disease called craw-craw is endemic in the sleeping sickness region..O'Neil found a filaria-like parasite in the vesicles of craw-craw. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 438 The kraw-kraw is a frightfully prevalent disease. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1803 |
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