smallpox

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

An acute, highly infectious often fatal disease caused by Variola virus of the family Poxviridae. It was completely eradicated in the 1970s, but still exists in laboratories. Those who survived were left with pockmarks.

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From small + pox, in contrast to greatpox (“syphilis”).

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