Path. [mod.L., f. F. framboise raspberry: see FRAMBOISE.] A chronic contagious disease peculiar to the negro, and 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 [etc.].]
1803. T. Winterbottom, Sierra Leone, II. viii. 145. The plans, he says, has been improperly included with the former under the term franiboesia, although it has not been so extensively diffused as the yaws.
1814. T. Bateman, Cutaneous Dis. (ed. 3), 316–7. For, like the febrile eruptions, the Frambœsia affects the same person only once during life.
1876. Duhring, Dis. Skin, 443. Frambœsia, called also yaws, pian, and endemic verrugas, is an endemic disease, characterized by marked and peculiar cutaneous symptoms.
Hence Frambœsioid a. [see -OID], like or indicating frambœsia.
1885–9. Buck, Handbk. Med. Sc., V. 77/1. On, or alongside of, the lichenoid patches, vegetations and growths occur, at first wart-like, later profusely hypertrophic—frambœsioid.
