Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
variolation .
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- noun medicine, obsolete
Variolation : inoculation againstsmallpox using material from a smallpoxlesion
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- noun the obsolete process of inoculating a susceptible person with material taken from a vesicle of a person who has smallpox
Etymologies
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variola + -ization
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