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SYN: smallpox. [Med. L. dim of L. varius, spotted]

- v. benigna SYN: varioloid (2).

- v. hemorrhagica SYN: hemorrhagic smallpox.

- v. major SYN: smallpox.

- v. maligna malignant smallpox, usually of the hemorrhagic form. SYN: malignant smallpox.

- v. miliaris a form of varioloid in which the eruption consists of miliary vesicles without the formation of pustules.

- v. minor SYN: alastrim.

- v. pemphigosa a form of smallpox in which the eruption consists of pemphigus-like blebs.

- v. sine eruptione an abortive form of smallpox in which the disease subsides without the appearance of any eruption, or at most a few papules that never go on to pustulation.

- v. vaccine, v. vaccinia SYN: vaccinia.

- v. vera smallpox of ordinary severity in the unvaccinated.

- v. verrucosa a mild or abortive form of varioloid, the eruption of which consists mainly of papules, with occasionally minute vesicles at the apices, which persist for a time as wartlike lesions. SYN: wartpox.

va·ri·o·la və-'rī-ə-lə n smallpox also the poxvirus of the genus Orthopoxvirus (species Variola virus) that is the causative agent of smallpox

see smallpox