= pox, n. 1a, 1b. In plural with singular agreement. Obsolete.

Medicine. = variola, n. Now rare.

Any of several infectious diseases characterized by a rash of pustules (pocks), esp. smallpox, cowpox, and chickenpox. See also chickenpox, n., cowpox…

In singular or plural. The disease smallpox (smallpox, n. 1b). Now chiefly historical or archaic.

Medicine. An acute infectious disease characterized by high fever, headache and backache, and a rash which affects esp. the face and extremities and…

The disease smallpox. In early use also: †any of several other infectious diseases resembling or confused with this, esp. measles and chickenpox (obs…

= smallpox, n. 1.

Medicine. Resembling or similar to variola; of the nature of variola. Now rare.

Medicine. Of a lesion of the skin or other part of the body: separate from other such lesions; not confluent; circumscribed. Also: characterized…

Variola in a modified (usually milder) form, esp. in a person with a history of previous vaccination or infection; an instance or case of this. In…

= varioloid, n. Obsolete. rare.

the original, usually severe form of smallpox, often having a mortality rate of 20–30%.

A mild form of smallpox; = variola minor n. at variola, n. compounds 3. Now rare.

a mild form of smallpox with a low mortality rate, caused by a variola virus of reduced virulence, and recognized as a distinct entity in the late…