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Definition: Yaws |
YawsNoun1. An infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "yaws" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1960. (references) |
Note: Yaws \Yaws\, noun. [African yaw raspberry.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | A systemic non-venereal infection of the tropics caused by Treponema pallidum subspecies pertenue. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The disease is transmitted by skin contact with infected individuals, the spirochete entering through an existing cut or similar damage. Within ninety days (but usually less than a month) of infection a painless but distinctive 'mother yaw' ulcerous papule appears on the skin at the point of entry, it is often described as raspberry-like and is 10-50 mm in size. This lesion will persist for up to nine months and other secondary growths will appear on the body as the original one heals, there may also be inflammation of the fingers (dactylitis).
If untreated a secondary stage occurs after up to four months of latency, it is marked by more 'raspberry' growths but smaller and ulcerous - exuding a thin, highly infective fluid which attracts flies. These growths may also merge together into thick fissured plaques, which can occur on the feet and induce a distinctive gait. These secondary growths are irreversible but there can be relapsing lesions and asymptomatic periods.
In 10-20 % of cases the disease can progress over a decade or more to a tertiary stage with destructive lesions of the skin and bones. Large subcutaneous nodules develop and grow before abscessing and ulcerating, these can become infected and may merge together forming serpiginous tracts. These tracts heal with keloid formation which can cause deformities, disabilities and limb contractures. The bone lesions caused are periostitis, osteitis, and osteomyelitis, damage to the tibia can lead to a condition known as sabre shins. In a very few cases a condition known as goundou is caused where growths on the nasal maxillae can result in extensive and severe damage to the nose and palate.
The largest group afflicted by Yaws are children aged 6 to 10 years in the Caribbean Islands, Latin America, West Africa, India, Oceania or Southeast Asia. There were WHO-funded campaigns against yaws from 1954 to 1963 which greatly reduced the incidence of the disease, although more recently numbers have risen again.
The disease is identified from blood tests or by a lesion sample through a darkfield examination under a microscope. Treatment is by a single dose of penicillin, erythromycin or tetracycline, recurrance or relapse is uncommon.
Examination of ancient remains has led to the suggestion that yaws has affected hominids for the last 1.5 million years. The current name is believed to be of Carib origin, "yaya" meaning sore; frambesia is from the French for "raspberry". Yaws is also a webserver application written in Erlang [1].
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Yaws."
Synonyms: YawsSynonyms: frambesia (n), framboesia (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Yaws |
| English words defined with "yaws": Crab-yaws ♦ Frambaesia ♦ Pian ♦ Sibbens ♦ treponema. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "yaws": Antitreponemal Agents ♦ Treponema pallidum ♦ Water-washed disease ♦ yaw axis. (references) |
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 | Flies can transmit food-borne diseases such as cholera, typhoid, paratyphoid, salmonellosis and dysentery, as well as myiasis, trachoma, and yaws. They breed in organic wastes, refuse and animal excrement. Credit: CDC. |  | Mother with small child who has many infectious yaws lesions ... / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Dr. Hackett.. |
 | Yaws is the disease of poverty and filth. : The first victims are always the children. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Paul Almasy.. |  | ... the painful disfigurement of a child afflicted by yaws, the sorrow of a helpless mother. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Eric Schwab.. |
 | Yaws and Bejel / Elon Clark. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ||
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| "Yaws" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "Yaws" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 77.78% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 22.22% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "yaws" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Yaws | Last name | 130 | 66,346 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "yaws": yaws-endemic. | |
Ending with "yaws": crab-yaws. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
disease yaws | 30 |
yaws | 20 |
disease picture yaws | 2 |
picture yaws | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "yaws"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | sëmundje e tropikëve. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | tropická kožní nemoc. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | yaws (frambesia, framboesia), parangi (parangi), hindbaerpletter ved framboesia, framboesia (bubas, chappa, frambesia, framboesia, parangi), buba (bubas). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | polypapilloma tropicum (frambesia, framboesia), parangi (frambesia, framboesia, parangi), Guineapokken (frambesia, framboesia), framboesia (frambesia, framboesia), bubas (bubas, frambesia), buba (bubas, frambesia, framboesia), boubas (frambesia, framboesia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | بیماری مسری وعفونی(طب). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pian. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | gierten, Frambösie (frambesia, framboesia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τροπικό θήλωμα (bubas, chappa, frambesia, framboesia, parangi), τροπική μόρωσις (frambesia, parangi), δερματική λεϊσμανίαση (Aleppo boil, Bombay boil, bubas, cat-boil, cutaneous leishmaniasis, Delhi boil, Delhi sore, leishmaniasis, oriental sore), δερματική ασθένεια των τροπικών χωρών. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | framboesia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | framboesia (frambesia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | yaws (bubas), pian (bubas), parangi (parangi), imbardate, framboesia (bubas, frambesia), bubas (bubas). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yawsay "parangi". (various references) фрамбезия. (various references) frambezija. (various references) pian (frambesia, framboesia), frambesia (frambesia, framboesia). (various references) framboesi, frambösi. (various references) ekvator frengisi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Yaws" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: iwasg, yacs, yads, Yahsi, yans, yars, yas, yats, yawa, yawe, Yawk, yays, yazs, yeaw, yewe, yewt, ygas, yiw, yowes, yows, yuw, yw, zaws. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sway, ways. | |
| Words within the letters "a-s-w-y" | |
-1 letter: ays, saw, say, was, way, yaw. | |
-2 letters: as, aw, ay, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-s-w-y" | |
+1 letter: gawsy, swamy, sways, washy, waspy, yawls, yawns, yawps. | |
+2 letters: always, bylaws, byways, noways, psywar, sawfly, sawney, sawyer, seaway, skyway, strawy, subway, swabby, swampy, swanky, swarty, swayed, swayer, sweaty, wastry, waveys. | |
+3 letters: airways, anyways, anywise, bewrays, byelaws, cogways, endways, eyewash, fishway, flyways, hawkeys, haymows, keyways, lawyers, leeways, logways, midways, oilways, psywars, runways, sallowy, sawneys, sawyers, scrawly, scrawny, seaways, shadowy, shipway, sideway, skidway, skywalk, skyward, skyways, slipway, someway, sprawly, subways, swarthy, swayers, swayful, swaying, tawneys, washday, waspily, wastery, waylays, wayless, wayside, weasely, whydahs, yarrows, yawners, yawpers. | |
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