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Varicella :: Varicella (n.) Chicken pox.

Poxing :: Poxing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Po.

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

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

Vaccinia :: Vaccinia (n.) Cowpox; vaccina. See Cowpox.

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..

Hives :: Hives (n.) An eruptive disease (Varicella globularis), allied to the chicken pox..

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

Vaccination :: Vaccination (n.) The act, art, or practice of vaccinating, or inoculating with the cowpox, in order to prevent or mitigate an attack of smallpox. Cf. Inoculation..

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

Pockmarked :: Pockmarked (a.) Marked by smallpox; pitted.

Catch :: Catch (v. t.) To take or receive; esp. to take by sympathy, contagion, infection, or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to catch the measles or smallpox; to catch cold; the house caught fire..

Exanthema :: Exanthema (n.) An efflorescence or discoloration of the skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in measles, smallpox, scarlatina, and the like diseases; -- sometimes limited to eruptions attended with fever..

Communication :: Communication (n.) The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret..

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

Fretten :: Fretten (a.) Rubbed; marked; as, pock-fretten, marked with the smallpox..

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

Smallpox :: Smallpox (n.) 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..

Pitted :: Pitted (a.) Marked with little pits, as in smallpox. See Pit, v. t., 2..

Pocky :: Pocky (superl.) Full of pocks; affected with smallpox or other eruptive disease.

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