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Deviations of a ship's course
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yaws
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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 ...
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n. an infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions [syn: frambesia , framboesia ]
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.