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Syphilitic :: Syphilis (n.) The pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific, infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and occurring in three stages known as primary, secondary, and tertiary syphilis. See under Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary..

Pitted :: Pitted (a.) Marked with little pits, as in smallpox. See Pit, v. t., 2..

Efflorescence :: Efflorescence (n.) A redness of the skin; eruption, as in rash, measles, smallpox, scarlatina, etc..

Catch :: Catch (v. t.) To take or receive; esp. to take by sympathy, contagion, infection, or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to catch the measles or smallpox; to catch cold; the house caught fire..

Variolous :: Variolous (a.) Of or pertaining to the smallpox; having pits, or sunken impressions, like those of the smallpox; variolar; variolic..

Pocky :: Pocky (superl.) Full of pocks; affected with smallpox or other eruptive disease.

Sarcin :: Sarcin (n.) Same as Hypoxanthin.

Varioloid :: Varioloid (a.) The smallpox as modified by previous inoculation or vaccination.

Umbilicated :: Umbilicated (a.) Depressed in the middle, like a navel, as a flower, fruit, or leaf; navel-shaped; having an umbilicus; as, an umbilicated smallpox vesicle..

Vaccinia :: Vaccinia (n.) Cowpox; vaccina. See Cowpox.

Umbilication :: Umbilication (n.) A slight, navel-like depression, or dimpling, of the center of a rounded body; as, the umbilication of a smallpox vesicle; also, the condition of being umbilicated..

Pit :: Pit (v. t.) To mark with little hollows, as by various pustules; as, a face pitted by smallpox..

Communication :: Communication (n.) The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret..

Variolation :: Variolation (n.) Inoculation with smallpox.

Inoculate :: Inoculate (v. t.) To communicate a disease to ( a person ) by inserting infectious matter in the skin or flesh; as, to inoculate a person with the virus of smallpox,rabies, etc. See Vaccinate..

Pox :: Pox (n.) Strictly, a disease by pustules or eruptions of any kind, but chiefly or wholly restricted to three or four diseases, -- the smallpox, the chicken pox, and the vaccine and the venereal diseases..

Varioloid :: Varioloid (a.) Resembling smallpox; pertaining to the disease called varioloid.

Hives :: Hives (n.) An eruptive disease (Varicella globularis), allied to the chicken pox..

Sarkin :: Sarkin (n.) Same as Hypoxanthin.

Cowpock :: Cowpock (n.) See Cowpox.

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