SMALLPOX - Definition

Pronunciation:		'smol`pâks
WordNet Dictionary

	Definition:	[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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	Synonyms:	variola

	See Also:	pock, pox

Products Dictionary

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

	Definition:	\Small"pox`\, n. [Small + pox, pocks.] (Med.) 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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