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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An acute, highly infectious, often fatal disease caused by a poxvirus and characterized by high fever and aches with subsequent widespread eruption of pimples that blister, produce pus, and form pockmarks. Also called variola.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An acute, highly contagious disease, fatal in between one third and one fourth of unvaccinated cases. It ordinarily presents the following features; a period of incubation (three to eighteen days or more, usually twelve to fourteen days);

Wiktionary

  1. n. 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.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (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.

WordNet 3.0

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

Etymologies

  1. From small +‎ pox. (Wiktionary)

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  • chained_bear "DECEMBER 9, 1772.
    BERKLEY plantation is now clear of the SMALLPOX, and the Publick may be assured there is no Danger of any Infection remaining, as every necessary Care has been taken to cleanse the People and Houses.
    BENJAMIN HARRISON."
    Virginia Gazette, Dec. 10, 1772 (Yes, this is the ancestor of Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president)

    See also tar-water and cordial. Jan 27, 2009

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