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• variola major (noun)
  1. a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars
  2. a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of up to 25 percent
• variola major virus (noun)
  1. a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of up to 25 percent
• variola minor (noun)
  1. a mild form of smallpox caused by a less virulent form of the virus
  2. a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of about 1 percent
• variola minor virus (noun)
  1. a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of about 1 percent
• variola vaccina (noun)
  1. a local infection induced in humans by inoculation with the virus causing cowpox in order to confer resistance to smallpox; normally lasts three weeks and leaves a pitted scar
• variola vaccine (noun)
  1. a local infection induced in humans by inoculation with the virus causing cowpox in order to confer resistance to smallpox; normally lasts three weeks and leaves a pitted scar
• variola vaccinia (noun)
  1. a local infection induced in humans by inoculation with the virus causing cowpox in order to confer resistance to smallpox; normally lasts three weeks and leaves a pitted scar
• variola virus (noun)
  1. the virus that causes smallpox in humans; can be used as a bioweapon
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