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

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

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..

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..

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

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

Poxed :: Poxed (imp. & p. p.) of Po.

Varicella :: Varicella (n.) Chicken pox.

Cowpock :: Cowpock (n.) See Cowpox.

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

Cowpox :: Cowpox (n.) A pustular eruptive disease of the cow, which, when communicated to the human system, as by vaccination, protects from the smallpox; vaccinia; -- called also kinepox, cowpock, and kinepock..

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..

Vaccinate :: Vaccinate (v. t.) To inoculate with the cowpox by means of a virus, called vaccine, taken either directly or indirectly from cows..

Antivariolous :: Antivariolous (a.) Preventing the contagion of smallpox.

Swineery :: Swine-pox (n.) A variety of the chicken pox, with acuminated vesicles containing a watery fluid; the water pox..

Variola :: Variola (n.) The smallpox.

Xanthin :: Xanthin (n.) A crystalline nitrogenous body closely related to both uric acid and hypoxanthin, present in muscle tissue, and occasionally found in the urine and in some urinary calculi. It is also present in guano. So called from the yellow color of certain of its salts (nitrates)..

Hypoxanthin :: Hypoxanthin (n.) A crystalline, nitrogenous substance, closely related to xanthin and uric acid, widely distributed through the animal body, but especially in muscle tissue; -- called also sarcin, sarkin..

Vaccination :: Vaccination (n.) The act, art, or practice of vaccinating, or inoculating with the cowpox, in order to prevent or mitigate an attack of smallpox. Cf. Inoculation..

Fretten :: Fretten (a.) Rubbed; marked; as, pock-fretten, marked with the smallpox..

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