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n. See smallpox.

n. smallpox

n. The smallpox.

n. The pustular apothecium occurring on certain lichens.

n. Smallpox; a specific contagious disease characterized by an eruption of papules, becoming vesicular and then pustular, and attended by high fever, racking pains in the head and spine, and severe constitutional disturbance.

n. [capitalized] [NL. (Swainson, 1839).] A genus of fishes

n. a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars

"The term variola is from the Latin varus, a pimple."

pox   

variola miliaria    variola pemphigosa    variola verrucosa    variola inserta    variola siliquosa    variola equina    variola confluens    variola ovina   

white pox    variola minor    west indian smallpox    cuban itch    milk pox    pseudosmallpox    pseudovariola    alastrim    kaffir pox   

variolar    variolous   

innoculation    prosopagnosia    toxoplasmosis    atresia    hypothyroidism    variation    neutropenia    neuropath    pustule    feeble-mindedness