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Variola :: Variola (n.) The smallpox.

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

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

Chicken Pox :: Chicken pox () A mild, eruptive disease, generally attacking children only; varicella..

Poxing :: Poxing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Po.

Smallpox :: Smallpox (n.) 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..

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)..

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

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..

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

Pockmark :: Pockmark (n.) A mark or pit made by smallpox.

Water Pox :: Water pox () A variety of chicken pox, or varicella..

Varicella :: Varicella (n.) Chicken pox.

Confluent :: Confluent (a.) Characterized by having the pustules, etc., run together or unite, so as to cover the surface; as, confluent smallpox..

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

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

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..

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

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

Kinepox :: Kinepox (n.) See Cowpox.

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