SMALLPOX
\smˈɔːlpɒks], \smˈɔːlpɒks], \s_m_ˈɔː_l_p_ɒ_k_s]\
Definitions of SMALLPOX
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars
By Princeton University
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a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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An acute, highly contagious, often fatal infectious disease caused by an orthopoxvirus characterized by a biphasic febrile course and distinctive progressive skin eruptions. Vaccination has succeeded in eradicating smallpox worldwide. (Dorland, 28th ed)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Variola, an acute eruptive contagious disease marked at the onset by chills, high fever, backache, and headache; in from 2 to 5 days the constitutional symptoms subside and the eruption appears; this is at first papular, the papules become vesicles, and the latter pustules; the vesicles are umbilicated; the pustules dry and form scabs which on falling off leave a permanent marking of the skin (pockmarks). The average incubation period is 8-14 days.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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An infectious, contagious, acute febrile disease chiefly characterized by a pustular exanthem upon the skin.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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