单词 | varicella |
释义 | varicellan. Medicine. The disease chickenpox. In early use also: any of several diseases resembling or confused with this, esp. variola minor (alastrim) and cowpox. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > chickenpox swinepox1528 chickenpox1691 varicella1771 water-pox1782 wart-pock1873 1771 Encycl. Brit. III. 59 Exanthemata, or eruptive fevers; comprehending 10 genera, viz. 1. Erysipelas; 2. Pestis; 3. Variola; 4. Varicella; 5. Rubeola [etc.]. 1772 D. MacBride Methodical Introd. Physic ii. i. xiii. 372 The disease termed Varicella, Variolæ Volaticæ, or chicken-pock, ought not to be considered as a variety of the small-pox, though some authors, particularly Morton and Sauvages, hold it as such. 1804 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 12 441 Though very much resembling variola, I remarked, it might yet be found to be varicella. 1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. ii. i. 178 Varicella has been largely confounded with small-pox, of which it has been regarded as a modified variety. 1913 H. T. Ricketts & G. F. Dick Infection, Immunity & Serum Therapy (rev. ed.) 743 Although the skin manifestations of varicella often resemble those of smallpox to such an extent that differentiation is difficult, the two diseases are distinct. 1968 Jrnl. Pediatrics 73 642/1 There are now a number of situations in which varicella is atypical or lethal. 2006 L. Collier & J. Oxford Human Virol. (ed. 3) xviii. 146/2 The complications most to be feared are varicella pneumonitis and generalized varicella, which again mainly affect immunocompromised patients. Derivatives ˌvariˈcellar adj. = varicellous adj. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [adjective] > chickenpox varicellous1803 varicellar1826 1826 Lancet 22 Apr. 113/1 Up to the sixth day varicellar and varioloid diseases often bear the greatest resemblance to small-pox. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 720 When the disease is engrafted on the lesions of varicella..it does not confine itself to the varicellar lesions. 1996 Clin. Infectious Dis. 23 392/1 Unfortunately, the patient's course was further complicated by varicellar infection and leukemic meningitis. Compounds C1. General attributive. ΚΠ 1825 D. Uwins Compend. Theoret. & Pract. Med. 219 It is generally about the fifth day at furthest that the varicella eruption appears. 1875 tr. H. W. von Ziemssen et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. II. 10 The nature of the resulting eruption suggests that the varicella virus takes no part in its genesis. 1897 Trans. Amer. Pediatric Soc. 9 131 Around many of the varicella marks..a rapid ulceration immediately began. 1898 Arch. Surg. 9 369 It might be the result of..a sequel of varicella, i.e. a varicella prurigo. 1921 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 10 Sept. 895/2 In all the varicella cases the trunk was the region mainly or exclusively affected. 1974 Lancet 30 Nov. 1280/1 Severe varicella symptoms developed in an eleven-year-old boy with nephrosis who had been receiving steroid therapy. 2006 Esquire Sept. 84/2 You can avoid getting the virus that causes both chickenpox and later shingles by receiving the varicella vaccine—standard in the US, but this is one of the few diseases we don't immunise against in the UK. C2. varicella zoster virus n. the virus which causes chickenpox and shingles. ΚΠ 1949 Lancet 25 June 1104/1 In children the Varicella-zoster virus is dermotropic. 1985 J. S. Oxford & B. Öberg Conquest Viral Dis. xiii. 545 Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) causes, as the name implies, both varicella (Chickenpox) and zoster (shingles). 2006 Washington Post (Nexis) 26 Oct. a12 An estimated 15 to 30 percent of people infected with the varicella zoster virus that causes chickenpox develop shingles later in life. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1771 |
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