Definition of "yaws" []

• A highly contagious tropical disease that chiefly affects children, caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue and characterized by raspberrylike sores, especially on the hands, feet, and face. Also called frambesia. (noun-plural)

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• "You must ask your examining surgeon if he is acquainted with the distemper of the yaws, which is the virus of"
• "The cousin diseased causes yaws which is an infection caused by a sub-species of the same bacteria."
• "Mr Hayward said there were two curved friction marks, or "yaws", on the road where the car had spun out before hitting the barrier and coming to a rest on its side."