Frambesia

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Yaws, the disease. uncountable
  2. 2
    an infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions wordnet

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin frambēsia. Doublet of bramberry and framboise.

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