单词 | mama-pian |
释义 | † mama-piann. Caribbean. Obsolete. In the Caribbean, a large skin lesion, often ulcerated and surrounded by smaller ones, in the disease yaws; = mamma-yaw n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun] > a suppuration > abscess > ulcer > of yaws master yaw1744 yaw1744 tubboe1769 mamma-yaw1801 mama-pian1822 mother yaw1822 mother-pian1898 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 675 The master-fungus being named [in St Domingo] mama-pian, or mother-yaw. 1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. II. 107/1 Mamanpian, the initial growth in yaws; the mother-yaw. 1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. xxvii. 428 (note) A large persistent yaw is sometimes known as the ‘mother’, ‘grandmother’ or ‘mama-pian’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1822 |
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