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Definition of Smallpox

1. Noun. A highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars.

Definition of Smallpox

1. 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.

Definition of Smallpox

1. Noun. (pathology) An acute, highly infectious often fatal disease caused by a virus of the family ''Poxviridae''. It was completely eradicated in the 1970s. Those who survived were left with pockmarks. ¹

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Definition of Smallpox

1. a virus disease [n -ES]

Medical Definition of Smallpox

1. 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 of dissemination, commencing on the head and face. When the final stage is passed scars (pockmarks) are left to disfigure the skin. (27 Sep 1997)

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