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Antivariolous :: Antivariolous (a.) Preventing the contagion of smallpox.

Cowpox :: Cowpox (n.) A pustular eruptive disease of the cow, which, when communicated to the human system, as by vaccination, protects from the smallpox; vaccinia; -- called also kinepox, cowpock, and kinepock..

Vaccinate :: Vaccinate (v. t.) To inoculate with the cowpox by means of a virus, called vaccine, taken either directly or indirectly from cows..

Hypoxanthin :: Hypoxanthin (n.) A crystalline, nitrogenous substance, closely related to xanthin and uric acid, widely distributed through the animal body, but especially in muscle tissue; -- called also sarcin, sarkin..

Pit :: Pit (n.) The indentation or mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox..

Inoculate :: Inoculate (v. t.) To communicate a disease to ( a person ) by inserting infectious matter in the skin or flesh; as, to inoculate a person with the virus of smallpox,rabies, etc. See Vaccinate..

Water Pox :: Water pox () A variety of chicken pox, or varicella..

Pit :: Pit (v. t.) To mark with little hollows, as by various pustules; as, a face pitted by smallpox..

Variolous :: Variolous (a.) Of or pertaining to the smallpox; having pits, or sunken impressions, like those of the smallpox; variolar; variolic..

Confluent :: Confluent (a.) Characterized by having the pustules, etc., run together or unite, so as to cover the surface; as, confluent smallpox..

Xanthin :: Xanthin (n.) A crystalline nitrogenous body closely related to both uric acid and hypoxanthin, present in muscle tissue, and occasionally found in the urine and in some urinary calculi. It is also present in guano. So called from the yellow color of certain of its salts (nitrates)..

Varioloid :: Varioloid (a.) The smallpox as modified by previous inoculation or vaccination.

Syphilitic :: Syphilis (n.) The pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific, infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and occurring in three stages known as primary, secondary, and tertiary syphilis. See under Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary..

Kinepox :: Kinepox (n.) See Cowpox.

Swineery :: Swine-pox (n.) A variety of the chicken pox, with acuminated vesicles containing a watery fluid; the water pox..

Varioloid :: Varioloid (a.) Resembling smallpox; pertaining to the disease called varioloid.

Pox :: Pox (v. t.) To infect with the pox, or syphilis..

Umbilicated :: Umbilicated (a.) Depressed in the middle, like a navel, as a flower, fruit, or leaf; navel-shaped; having an umbilicus; as, an umbilicated smallpox vesicle..

Sarkin :: Sarkin (n.) Same as Hypoxanthin.

Chicken Pox :: Chicken pox () A mild, eruptive disease, generally attacking children only; varicella..

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