Yaws (Noun)
Meaning
An infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions.
Classification
Nouns denoting natural processes.
Examples
- The doctor suspected that the patient had contracted yaws during his recent trip to the tropical island.
- Yaws is a highly contagious disease that can be spread through skin contact with an infected person.
- The symptoms of yaws can be mistaken for those of syphilis, but the two diseases are distinct and require different treatments.
- In the early 20th century, yaws was a major public health problem in many tropical regions, but widespread vaccination campaigns have largely controlled the disease.
- The patient's skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions were characteristic of the secondary stage of yaws, which typically occurs several weeks after the initial infection.