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yaws

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4 lettersPronunciation /ˈjɔːz/Part of speech nounSorted aswyStarts with YEnds with S0 clues
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Definitions

  1. A tropical bacterial disease affecting skin, bones, and joints.

Word origin

Uncertain. Attested since the 1670s, perhaps from an English creole (or other language) of the Caribbean.

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  • Other threats came from organisms co-evolving with humans, including tapeworms and such spirochaetes as Treponema, the agent of syphilis, and the similar skin infection, yaws.

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