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Definition of Variola major

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.

2. Noun. A type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of up to 25 percent.

Medical Definition of Variola major

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)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Variola Major

varifocal varifocal lens varifocals varifold varifolds variform variformed varify varifying varimax

variogram variograms variola variola benigna variola haemorrhagica variola major (current term) variola major virus variola maligna variola minor variola minor virus

variola pemphigosa variola vaccina variola vaccine variola vaccinia variola vera variola verrucosa variola virus variolar variolas variolate

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