VARIOLA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does variola mean? 

• VARIOLA (noun)
  The noun VARIOLA has 1 sense:

1. a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars

  Familiarity information: VARIOLA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VARIOLA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

smallpox; variola; variola major

Hypernyms ("variola" is a kind of...):

pox (a contagious disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pock marks)

Meronyms (parts of "variola"):

pock (a pustule in an eruptive disease)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "variola"):

alastrim; Cuban itch; Kaffir pox; milk pox; pseudosmallpox; pseudovariola; variola minor; West Indian smallpox; white pox (a mild form of smallpox caused by a less virulent form of the virus)

 Context examples 

A thiosemicarbazone derivative with activity against variola virus.

(Citenazone, NCI Thesaurus)