Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The pustular apothecium occurring on certain lichens.
- noun Smallpox; a specific contagious disease characterized by an eruption of papules, becoming vesicular and then pustular, and attended by high fever, racking pains in the head and spine, and severe constitutional disturbance.
- noun [capitalized] [NL. (Swainson, 1839).] A genus of fishes
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- noun (Med.) The smallpox.
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- noun pathology
smallpox
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- noun a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars
Etymologies
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The term variola is from the Latin varus, a pimple.
Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Anonymous
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The term variola is from the Latin varus, a pimple.
The Scientific Monthly, October-December 1915 Scientific Monthly 1915
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Smallpox, caused by a virus called variola, was declared eliminated in 1980 after a global vaccination campaign.
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Smallpox virus (scientific name variola major) would be a "good" biological warfare agent because it is unusually robust, can be disseminated through the air as an inhalable aerosol to infect people over a large area, and -- unlike anthrax -- is contagious from one person to another.
Scared Of Smallpox 2007
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The Latin name variola, like the English pox, was applied indiscriminately to syphilis, small-pox, chicken-pox, etc.
The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910
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That's because two large government laboratories, one in the U.S. and one in Russia, insist on maintaining stocks of the smallpox virus called variola.
Forbes.com: News Forbes Blogs 2011
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Others, however, warn that labeling possession of the virus a crime against humanity will in no way deter terrorists, and that without the live smallpox virus, called variola, we won't be able to prepare for the worst.
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Luckilly, I was able to get a hold of some variola before the bad men in government started to make it extinct.
Mosquitoes and Eggs 2008
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European Pressphoto Agency Professor Frank Fenner in 2006 Mr. Fenner, an Australian virologist who died Monday at age 95, led the commission that verified that the World Health Organization ' s decadelong assault on the variola virus had been a success.
Virologist Helped Eradicate Smallpox Stephen Miller 2010
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It also led Mr. Fenner to study the related variola virus that causes smallpox.
Virologist Helped Eradicate Smallpox Stephen Miller 2010
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