smallpox : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: smallpox	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for smallpox
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
smallpox n a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars Synonym(s): smallpox, variola, variola major
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Smallpox \Small"pox`\, n. [Small + pox, pocks.] (Med.) 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.