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Definition of Frambesia
1. Noun. An infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions.
Definition of Frambesia
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Frambesia
Literary usage of Frambesia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diseases of the Skin and the Eruptive Fevers by Jay Frank Schamberg (1915)
"frambesia is an infectious disease, endemic in certain tropical countries,
characterized by papules, tubercles, and tumors having the appearance of ..."
2. A Practical treatise on diseases of the skin for the use of students and by Oliver Samuel Ormsby (1921)
"frambesia is an infectious and contagious disorder, existing endemically in
certain tropical countries, affecting chiefly the colored races, ..."
3. A Compend of diseases of the skin by Jay Frank Schamberg (1905)
"frambesia is an infectious disease, endemic in certain tropical countries,
characterized by ... frambesia is contagious, and due to a specific bacillus. ..."
4. Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal (1903)
"frambesia and Similar Diseases of the Tropics. ... Heft 3) says that frambesia
is a disease of the skin characterized by an eruption of round excrescences, ..."
5. A Practical treatise on diseases of the skin by John Vietch Shoemaker (1909)
"frambesia is a contagious, infectious malady, < formation of macules, papules,
tubercles, and pustules, more or less lassitude, fever, and pains in the ..."
6. Infection, immunity and serum therapy in relation to the infectious diseases by Howard Taylor Ricketts, George Frederick Dick (1913)
"frambesia. frambesia or yaws is a tropical disease found in both hemispheres.
Castellani found a spirillum associated with the lesions which corresponds ..."
7. Diseases of the skin by Richard Lightburn Sutton (1919)
"frambesia. Synonyms.—Yaws; Pian: Tonga. Definition.—An infectious, endemic
disorder, peculiar to certain tropical countries, which is probably due to the ..."
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