English dictionary
smallpox
/'sm/O/l,p/A/ks/
Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.
noun
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a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars
Source: WordNet 3.0
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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.
Source: webster1913