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variola

noun

1 variola

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

synonyms: smallpox, variola major.

Roget 655: disease; illness, sickness etc. adj.; ailing &c.; all the ills that flesh is heir to" [Hamlet]; morbidity, morbosity; infirmity, ailment, indisposition; ... show more

Dutch: kinderpokken, pok, pokken, pokziekte, variola
Polish: ospa prawdziwa, ospa krwotoczna, ospa, czarna ospa


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