1) Alastrim 2) Pseudosmallpox 3) Variola
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1) Eradicated disease 2) Its last US case was in 1949 3) Variola 4) Variola major
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Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by either of two virus variants, Variola major and Variola minor. The disease is also known by the Latin names Variola or Variola vera, derived from varius (`spotted`) or varus (`pimple`). The disease was originally known in English as the `pox` or `red plague`; the term `smallpox` was first used...
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• (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.Smallpox: words i...
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acute infectious disease that begins with a high fever, headache, and back pain and then proceeds to an eruption on the skin that leaves the face and ... [23 related articles]
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A severe infectious disease caused by a virus, and often fatal. Smallpox caused fever, headache, and general malaise, followed by a rash. The rash characteristically affected face and limbs more than trunk and lesions start simultaneously. From a maculo-papular appearance, the rash passes into a pus...
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Acute, highly contagious viral disease, marked by aches, fever, vomiting, and skin eruptions leaving pitted scars. Widespread vaccination programmes have wiped out this often fatal disease. Smallpox...
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<disease, virology> This acute viral disease once claimed a high mortality rate, but was officially announced as globally eradicated in 1979. ... This was due to who vaccination programs. Headache, vomiting and fever precede, the eruption of a widespread rash that is raised, vesicular and finally pustular. The eruption follows a set pattern o...
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(smawl´poks) a highly contagious, often fatal disease caused by the variola virus, an orthopoxvirus; its most noticeable symptom is the appearance of blisters and pustules on the skin. It formerly occurred in epidemics that killed millions but has now been eradicated throughout the world as a result of a vaccination pro...
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Infectious viral disease with fever and blistering rash that was frequently fatal. Now eradicated. Incubation period was 7 to 14 days. Several degrees of severity (in increasing order) discrete, confluent, haemorrhagic and malignant
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Small'pox` noun [
Small +
pox ,
pocks .]
(Medicine) 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 pu...
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Type: Term Pronunciation: smawl′poks Definitions: 1. An acute eruptive contagious disease caused by a poxvirus (Orthopoxvirus, a member of the family Poxviridae) and marked at the onset by chills, high fever, backache, and headache. In 2-5 days these constitutional symptoms subside and an eruption appears as papules, which become umbilicated ...
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Smallpox: Also known as variola, a highly contagious and frequently fatal viral disease characterized by a biphasic fever and a distinctive skin rash that left pock marks in its wake. Because of its high case-fatality rates and transmissibility, smallpox now represents a serious bioterrorist threat. The disease is caused by the variola virus. The i...
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An acute contagious disease caused by a virus, with a high death rate if not treated. By the late-20th century it had been more or less eradicated across the globe.
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Smallpox (Variola) is an acute contagious disease characterised by fever and the appearance on the body of an eruption, which passes through the stages of papule, vesicle, pustule and scab.
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n] - a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars
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an acute infectious disease, also called variola; causes a high fever (sometimes death) and distinct blisters on the skin that often result in permanent scars.
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An acute, highly infectious, often fatal disease caused by a poxvirus and characterized by high fever and aches with subsequent widespread eruption of pimples that blister, produce pus, and form pockmarks. Also called variola.
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a highly contagious and often fatal viral infection that has been completely eradicated by immunisation
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variola noun a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars
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Acute, highly contagious viral disease, marked by aches, fever, vomiting, and skin eruptions leaving pitted scars. Widespread vaccination programmes have wiped out this often fatal disease. Smallpox was probably first brought to Europe by the returning crusaders, and as sea travel developed it was carried to the New World by explorers and settlers....
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A highly infectious, often fatal disease caused by a poxvirus and characterized by high fever and aches with subsequent widespread eruption of pimples that blister, produce pus, and form pockmarks. Also called variola.
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