smallpox

small·pox  (smôlpks)

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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smallpox

Noun

a contagious disease causing fever, a rash, and blisters which usually leave permanent scars

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smallpox  (smôlpks)

A highly infectious and often fatal disease caused by the variola virus of the genus Orthopoxvirus and characterized by fever, headache, and severely inflamed skin sores that result in extensive scarring. Once a dreaded killer of children that caused the deaths of millions of Native Americans after the arrival of European settlers in the Americas, smallpox was declared eradicated in 1980 following a worldwide vaccination campaign. Samples of the virus have been preserved in laboratories in the United States and Russia. Also called variola. See Note at Jenner Edward.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

smallpox - a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars variola, variola major pox - a contagious disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pock marks alastrim, Cuban itch, Kaffir pox, milk pox, pseudosmallpox, pseudovariola, variola minor, West Indian smallpox, white pox - a mild form of smallpox caused by a less virulent form of the virus pock - a pustule in an eruptive disease

Translations

smallpox [ˈsmɔːlpɔks] n → viruela

smallpox [ˈsmɔːlpɔks] n → variole f

smallpox [ˈsmɔːlpɔks] small n → Pocken pl

smallpox [ˈsmɔːlpɔks] n → vaiolo