varus

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The term variola is from the Latin varus, a pimple The name Small Pox, which first occurs in Holinshead's "Chronicle" (1571), was given to this disease to distinguish it from the Great Pox or syphilis, the French disease, or Morbus Gallicus which attained the proportions of an epidemic in Europe about 1494.

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  1. noun An abnormal position of a bone of the leg or foot.

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  1. From Latin vārus, crooked.

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  1. New Latin, from L, vārus, bent, stretched, or grown inward, awry, knock-kneed.
  2. New Latin, from Latin vărus, a pimple, blotch.
 

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/ˈveɪrəs/
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