About The Word Smallpox
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Smallpox
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What's The Definition Of Smallpox?
[n] a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars
Synonyms | Synonyms for Smallpox: variola Related Terms | Find terms related to Smallpox: Smallpox In Webster's Dictionary \Small"pox`\, n. [Small + pox, pocks.] (Med.)
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.
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