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frambesia

fram·be·sia

uncommon

noun

1.

an infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions

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Origin

Learned borrowing from New Latin frambēsia. Doublet of bramberry and framboise.

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