chappa

See also: Chappa

English

Noun

chappa (uncountable)

1. (pathology, obsolete, rare) A painful disease characterised by subcutaneous nodules
   • 1901 October 15, Edward H. Read, “Chappa”, in The Journal of Tropical Medicine:

     The disease called chappa by the Popo people, in the western district of the colony of Lagos, seems to me to be a specific ailment, and one which I have not seen described in any of the text-books.