yaws

yaws
    n 1: an infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its
         early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating
         lesions [syn: {yaws}, {frambesia}, {framboesia}]
    

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. There are several
   varieties of this disease, variously known as {framboesia},
   {pian}, {verrugas}, and {crab-yaws}.
   [1913 Webster]
    

127 Moby Thesaurus words for "yaws":
      African lethargy, Asiatic cholera, Chagres fever, German measles,
      Haverhill fever, acute articular rheumatism, ague, alkali disease,
      amebiasis, amebic dysentery, anthrax, bacillary dysentery,
      bastard measles, black death, black fever, blackwater fever,
      breakbone fever, brucellosis, bubonic plague, cachectic fever,
      cerebral rheumatism, chicken pox, cholera, cowpox, dandy fever,
      deer fly fever, dengue, dengue fever, diphtheria, dumdum fever,
      dysentery, elephantiasis, encephalitis lethargica, enteric fever,
      erysipelas, famine fever, five-day fever, flu, frambesia,
      glandular fever, grippe, hansenosis, hepatitis, herpes,
      herpes simplex, herpes zoster, histoplasmosis, hookworm,
      hydrophobia, infantile paralysis, infectious mononucleosis,
      inflammatory rheumatism, influenza, jail fever, jungle rot,
      kala azar, kissing disease, lepra, leprosy, leptospirosis, loa loa,
      loaiasis, lockjaw, madness, malaria, malarial fever, marsh fever,
      measles, meningitis, milzbrand, mumps, ornithosis, osteomyelitis,
      paratyphoid fever, parotitis, parrot fever, pertussis, pneumonia,
      polio, poliomyelitis, polyarthritis rheumatism, ponos, psittacosis,
      rabbit fever, rabies, rat-bite fever, relapsing fever,
      rheumatic fever, rickettsialpox, ringworm, rubella, rubeola,
      scarlatina, scarlet fever, schistosomiasis, septic sore throat,
      shingles, sleeping sickness, sleepy sickness, smallpox,
      snail fever, splenic fever, spotted fever, strep throat,
      swamp fever, tetanus, thrush, tinea, trench fever, trench mouth,
      tuberculosis, tularemia, typhoid, typhoid fever, typhus,
      typhus fever, undulant fever, vaccinia, varicella, variola,
      venereal disease, viral dysentery, whooping cough, yellow fever,
      yellow jack, zona, zoster