NOUN
- an infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions
How To Use frambesia In A Sentence
- Yaws (frambesia) is found in humid equatorial countries, where transmission is favored by scanty clothing and skin trauma.
- The first lesion goes most of the time unnoticed and the typical cutaneous finding is a sore also called frambesia which is an itching, granulating and oozing ulcer with a thin scab at the top.
- Around the world, yaws is known by many different names, including pian, patek, parangi, buoba, frambesia tropica, granuloma tropicum and polypapilloma tropicum.
- Around the world, yaws is known by many different names, including pian, patek, parangi, buoba, frambesia tropica, granuloma tropicum and polypapilloma tropicum.
- Because the bumps of yaws look like berries, the disease is also called frambesia from the French ‘framboise,’ meaning ‘raspberry.’
- Yaws (frambesia) is found in humid equatorial countries, where transmission is favored by scanty clothing and skin trauma.
- The first lesion goes most of the time unnoticed and the typical cutaneous finding is a sore also called frambesia which is an itching, granulating and oozing ulcer with a thin scab at the top.
- Because the bumps of yaws look like berries, the disease is also called frambesia from the French ‘framboise,’ meaning ‘raspberry.’