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Swerves at sea
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yaws
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Yaws is a tropical infection of the skin , bones and joints caused by the spirochete bacterium Treponema pallidum pertenue . The disease begins with a round, hard swelling of the skin, 2 to 5 centimeters in diameter. The center may break open and form an ...
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n. 1 (context disease English) A contagious tropical disease, caused by the spirochete ''Treponema pertenue'', characterized by yellowish or reddish tumors, which often resemble currants, strawberries, or raspberries. 2 (plural of yaw English) vb. (en-third-person ...
Usage examples of yaws.
All white men in the Solomons catch yaws, and every cut or abrasion practically means another yaw.
Malaria, malnutrition, river blindness, sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis, yaws, bilharzia, and rift valley fever were everywhere in retreat under the benign rule of the Pan-African Federation.
Toward one of the largest of them, it dips, then yaws and sideslips like a falling leaf into a paved, palm-lined courtyard where fountains play with rainbows.