单词 | yaws |
释义 | yawsn. A contagious disease of tropical countries, characterized by raspberry-like excrescences or tubercles on the skin; also called frambœsia. Also attributive. See also yaw n.2 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 1679 T. Trapham Disc. Health Jamaica ix. 113 Both which quarters of the world [sc. American and African deserts] bring forth the monstrous Yaws as a proper Stock to engraft a new cion of Disease. 1744 J. Huxham in Philos. Trans. 1740–41 (Royal Soc.) 41 667 He had frequent impure Conversation with some of the Negro Hussies (who probably laboured under the worst Species of Pox, called the Yaws). 1766 W. Hillary Observ. Changes Air & Dis. Barbadoes (ed. 2) 346 Whether it be the Yaws or a sort of itch which the Negroes call in their language Crowcrow. 1804 R. Southey in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1850) II. 257 The yellow fever will not take root in a negro, nor the yaws in a white man. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 502 Paulet, who inoculated healthy negroes with yaws-fluid. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 506 Syphilis never itches, yaws nearly always does. 1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. xxvii. 430 Yaws virus applied to a pre~existing ulcer may..cause it to fungate like an ordinary yaw. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1679 |
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