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 [ˈsmɔːlˌpɒks]

n

(Medicine / Pathology) an acute highly contagious viral disease characterized by high fever, severe prostration, and a pinkish rash changing in form from papules to pustules, which dry up and form scabs that are cast off, leaving pitted depressions Technical name variola Related adj variolous

[from small + pox. So called to distinguish it from the Great Pox, an archaic name for syphilis]

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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

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smallpox noun

Related words
adjective variolous

Translations

smallpox [ˈsmɔːlpɒks] N (Med) → viruela f

smallpox [ˈsmɔːlpɒks] n → variole f
small-scale [ˌsmɔːlˈskeɪl] adj

[undertaking, business] → peu important(e), de petite envergure

[map, model] → à petite échelle
small screen n
the small screen → le petit écran
small-size [ˈsmɔːlsaɪz] small-sized [ˈsmɔːlsaɪzd] adj → petit(e)
small talk n → papotage m
to make small talk → papoter
small-time [ˌsmɔːlˈtaɪm] adj [actor, celebrity] → de troisième ordre
a small-time thief → un voleur à la petite semaine
small town n (US) → petite ville f
small-town [ˌsmɔːlˈtaʊn] adj → provincial(e)

smallpox [ˈsmɔːlˌpɒks] n (Med) → vaiolo