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

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

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..

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..

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

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

Exanthema :: Exanthema (n.) An efflorescence or discoloration of the skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in measles, smallpox, scarlatina, and the like diseases; -- sometimes limited to eruptions attended with fever..

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

Pox :: Pox (v. t.) To infect with the pox, or syphilis..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

Variola :: Variola (n.) The smallpox.

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