| NOUN | state | variola, smallpox, variola major | 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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| Meaning | 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 | smallpox, variola major | |
| Parts | pock | A pustule in an eruptive disease |
| Narrower | alastrim, variola minor, pseudosmallpox, pseudovariola, milk pox, white pox, West Indian smallpox, Cuban itch, Kaffir pox | A mild form of smallpox caused by a less virulent form of the virus |
| Broader | pox | A contagious disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pock marks |
| Spanish | viruela | |
| Catalan | pigota, verola | |
| Adjectives | variolar, variolic, variolous | relating to small pox |
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