frambœsia Path.
(fræmˈbiːzɪə)
[mod.L., f. F. framboise raspberry: see framboise.]
A chronic contagious disease, characterized by raspberry-like excrescences; the yaws.
| [1768 F. B. de Sauvages Nosol. Method. II. 554 Frambæsia; Yaw Guineesium; Epian vel Pian Americanorum Est morbus contagiosus apud Guineenses.] 1803 T. Winterbottom Sierra Leone II. viii. 145 The pians..has been improperly included with the former [yaws] under the term framboesia. 1814 Bateman Cutaneous Dis. (ed. 3) 316 For, like the febrile eruptions, the Frambœsia affects the same person only once during life. 1876 Duhring Dis. Skin 443 Frambœsia..is an endemic disease. |
Hence framˈbœsioid a. [see -oid], like or indicating frambœsia.
| 1885–9 Buck Handbk. Med. Sc. V. 77 (Cent.) Growths..at first wart-like, later profusely hypertrophic—frambœsioid. |