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Deviates from a course
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yaws
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Yaws \Yaws\, n. [African yaw a raspberry.] (Med.) A disease, occurring in the Antilles and in Africa, characterized by yellowish or reddish tumors, of a contagious character, which, in shape and appearance, often resemble currants, strawberries, or raspberries. ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As with yaws , penicillin is the treatment of choice. ▪ The destructive lesions seen in yaws do not occur, however, and bone lesions seldom cause trouble.
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.