C19: from New Latin, from French framboise raspberry; see framboise; so called because of its raspberry-like excrescences
yaws in British English
(jɔːz)
noun
(usually functioning as singular)
an infectious nonvenereal disease of tropical climates with early symptoms resembling syphilis, characterized by red skin eruptions and, later, pain in the joints: it is caused by the spiral bacterium Treponema pertenue