Definition of smallpox

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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..

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Communication :: Communication (n.) The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret..
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 (n.) The indentation or mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox..
Variolation :: Variolation (n.) Inoculation with smallpox.
Varioloid :: Varioloid (a.) The smallpox as modified by previous inoculation or vaccination.
Confluent :: Confluent (a.) Characterized by having the pustules, etc., run together or unite, so as to cover the surface; as, confluent smallpox..
Pock-broken :: Pock-broken (a.) Broken out, or marked, with smallpox; pock-fretten..
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..
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..
Pockmarked :: Pockmarked (a.) Marked by smallpox; pitted.
Variolous :: Variolous (a.) Of or pertaining to the smallpox; having pits, or sunken impressions, like those of the smallpox; variolar; variolic..
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..
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..
Pockmark :: Pockmark (n.) A mark or pit made by smallpox.
Pit :: Pit (v. t.) To mark with little hollows, as by various pustules; as, a face pitted by smallpox..
Varioloid :: Varioloid (a.) Resembling smallpox; pertaining to the disease called varioloid.
Pocky :: Pocky (superl.) Full of pocks; affected with smallpox or other eruptive disease.
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..
Antivariolous :: Antivariolous (a.) Preventing the contagion of smallpox.
Variola :: Variola (n.) The smallpox.
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