Usually means: Tropical infection caused by spirochete.
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  1. yaws: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. yaws: Merriam-Webster
  3. yaws: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. yaws: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. yaws: Collins English Dictionary
  6. yaws: Vocabulary.com
  7. Yaws, yaws: Wordnik
  8. yaws: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Yaws, yaws: Wiktionary
  10. yaws: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. yaws: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. yaws: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. yaws: Dictionary.com
  14. yaws: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Yaws (web server), Yaws: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Yaws: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. yaws: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. yaws: Rhymezone
  19. Yaws: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. yaws: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. yaws: FreeDictionary.org
  22. yaws: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. yaws: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

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  1. yaws: Encyclopedia

Medicine (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. yaws: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Yaws: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Yaws: Merck Manuals
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  8. Yaws: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  9. yaws: Medical dictionary
  10. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  11. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  12. Yaws: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. YAWS: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (pathology) A contagious tropical disease, caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue, characterized by yellowish or reddish tumors, which often resemble berries.

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