bejel

[ bej-uhl ]

nounPathology.
  1. a nonvenereal syphilis occurring mainly among children in certain subtropical areas of southern Africa and southeastern Asia, caused by the spirochete strain Treponema pallidum endemicum.

Origin of bejel

1
First recorded in 1925–30, bejel is from the Arabic word bajl

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