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noun
Smallpox (Orthopoxvirus variola).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: smallpox, variola major
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: pox
Narrower terms: alastrim, variola minor, pseudosmallpox, pseudovariola, milk pox, white pox, West Indian smallpox, Cuban itch, Kaffir pox
History
From Middle English variolas pl (“pustules, pocks”), from Medieval Latin or Medical Latin variola (“infectious disease causing pustules; pox”), from Latin varius. Doublet of variole.
Across languages
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
