Smallpox

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An acute, highly infectious, often fatal disease caused by a poxvirus and characterized by high fever and aches with subsequent widespread eruption of pimples that blister, produce pus, and form pockmarks. Also called variola.
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  • n. An acute, highly infectious often fatal disease caused by a virus of the family Poxviridae. It was completely eradicated in the 1970s. Those who survived were left with pockmarks.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick crusts which slough after a certain time, often leaving a pit, or scar.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An acute, highly contagious disease, fatal in between one third and one fourth of unvaccinated cases.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    pox   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    pox    variola   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    cholera    influenza    dysentery    hepatitis    typhoid   
     
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