yaws

英 [jɔːz]

美 [jɔːz]

n.  雅司病(热带皮肤病，可导致皮肤严重肿胀)
v.  偏航
yaw的第三人称单数

医学

牛津词典

noun

• 雅司病（热带皮肤病，可导致皮肤严重肿胀）
  a tropical skin disease that causes large red swellings

柯林斯词典

• VERB （飞机或船）偏航，偏离航线
  If an aircraft or a shipyaws, it turns to one side so that it changes the direction in which it is moving.
  1. As the plane climbed to 370 feet, it started yawing...
     飞机攀升到370英尺时，开始偏航。
  2. He spun the steering-wheel so that we yawed from side to side.
     他急速打着舵轮，把我们搞得摇来晃去的。

英英释义

noun

• an infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages
  Synonym:frambesiaframboesia

双语例句

• Yaws is a chronic infection that affects mainly the skin, bone and cartilage.
  雅司病是一种慢性感染，主要侵害皮肤、骨头和软骨；
• Experts believe that yaws can be eliminated and eventually eradicated because humans are the only reservoir of infection.
  专家认为，由于人类是唯一的感染贮主，雅司病可以得到治疗和最终根除。
• Yaws is transmitted mainly through direct skin contact with an infected person.
  雅司病主要通过与受感染者的直接皮肤接触进行传播；
• Yaws, a disease which eats away at the skin, cartilage and bones of its victims ( mostly children), is re-emerging in poor, rural and marginalized populations of Africa, Asia and South America.
  雅司病是一种逐渐侵蚀患者（大部分是儿童）的皮肤、软骨和骨头的疾病，它再度出现在非洲、亚洲和南美洲贫穷、农村和边缘化人口中。
• To detect and treat all yaws cases and their contacts;
  发现并治疗所有雅司病病例及其接触者；
• There is no specific blood test for yaws, but because it is closely related to the bacterium that causes syphilis, the blood tests for syphilis are diagnostic in yaws as well.
  对雅司病没有专门的血液检测，但由于它与引起梅毒的细菌密切相关，所以针对梅毒的血液检测也有助于诊断雅司病。
• More recently, India has also eliminated yaws.
  最近，印度也根除了雅司病。
• Late yaws appears after five years of the initial infection and is characterized by disabling consequences of the nose, bones and palmar/ plantar hyperkeratosis.
  雅司病晚期是在初期感染五年以后，特征是鼻子、骨头坏损，手掌/足底角化过度。
• In the south-east Asia region, the aim is to eradicate yaws by2012.
  在东南亚地区，目标是到2012年根除雅司病。
• Many spirochetes are pathogens causing yaws, syphilis, and relapsing fever.
  许多螺旋体是病原体，会导致雅司病（热带肉芽肿）、梅毒、以及回归热等。