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See also: Chappa
English[edit]
Noun[edit]
chappa (uncountable)
- (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.