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Meanings of variola in English
A highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars.
Synonyms
Examples for "smallpox"
Examples for "smallpox"
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Using idle processing power to help create a smallpox drug is great.
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According to all accounts, her work during the smallpox epidemic was heroic.
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The documents also castigates U.S. for research into biological weapons and smallpox.
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In the case of the Schröder girl, however, it was the smallpox.
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Critically, vaccination reliably conferred immunity to the far greater scourge of smallpox.
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Smallpox was the common name for the viruses variola major and minor, genus orthopoxvirus, in the poxvirus family.
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The most dangerous bioweapon on the planet is Variola major, a form of the smallpox virus.
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Variola major had a fatality rate of thirty to fifty percent, while variola minor's was under five percent.
Usage of variola in English
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Some authorities conjecture that the virus of variola belongs to the group of filter-passers.
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The term variola is from the Latin varus, a pimple.
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Ayer reports an instance of congenital variola in twins.
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The Latin name variola, like the English pox, was applied indiscriminately to syphilis, small-pox, chicken-pox, etc.
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While the variola virus that causes smallpox has been eliminated, it is still stored in various laboratories.
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Smallpox or variola is one of these.
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Smallpox was the common name for the viruses variola major and minor, genus orthopoxvirus, in the poxvirus family.
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According to Dupony, the first document mentioning variola was in 570 A.D., by Marius, a scholar of Avenches, in Switzerland.
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They include viruses that cause viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) syndrome as well as variola virus, the agent of smallpox.
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The assay was able to detect all viruses tested, including 8 sequences representative of different variola virus strains from the CDC repository.
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Prudden reports the case of a girl of twenty-five who, during convalescence from variola, became paraplegic, and during this time multiple neuromata appeared.
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Among many others offering evidence of variola in utero are Degner, Derham, John Hunter, Blot, Bulkley, Welch, Wright, Digk, Forbes, Marinus, and Bouteiller.
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In fact, according to the 2003 book Smallpox by David Koplow, neglected samples of variola have been found in lab freezers three times before.
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One of the fetuses showed distinct signs of congenital variola, although the mother and other fetus were free from any symptoms of the disease.
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Jenner waited till the nineteenth of the month, and finding that the boy had still not developed variola, he could hardly write for joy.
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The most dangerous bioweapon on the planet is Variola major, a form of the smallpox virus.
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