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PROGRESSIVE VACCINIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does progressive vaccinia mean? 

PROGRESSIVE VACCINIA (noun)
  The noun PROGRESSIVE VACCINIA has 1 sense:

1. a severe or even fatal form of vaccinia that occurs mainly in persons with an immunological deficiency; characterized by progressive enlargement of the initial lesionplay

  Familiarity information: PROGRESSIVE VACCINIA used as a noun is very rare.


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PROGRESSIVE VACCINIA (noun)


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Meaning:

A severe or even fatal form of vaccinia that occurs mainly in persons with an immunological deficiency; characterized by progressive enlargement of the initial lesion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

progressive vaccinia; vaccinia gangrenosa

Hypernyms ("progressive vaccinia" is a kind of...):

vaccina; vaccinia; variola vaccina; variola vaccine; variola vaccinia (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)


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