Variola synonyms

və-rī'ə-lə, vâr'ē-ō'lə, văr'-

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smallpox (related)
An acute, highly infectious, often fatal disease caused by a poxvirus and characterized by high fever and aches with subsequent widespread eruption of pimples that blister, produce pus, and form pockmarks. Smallpox was eradicated worldwide by 1979 as a result of numerous vaccination campaigns and the virus exists only as a laboratory specimen.
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variola major
a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars
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Variola Sentence Examples

  • variola virus DNA genome contains approximately 250, 000 base pairs in the form of about 200 genes.

  • variola proteins, it should be possible to substitute those obtained from the highly similar vaccinia virus.

  • Two things were known at the time about smallpox, also called variola.

  • The variola virus DNA genome contains approximately 250, 000 base pairs in the form of about 200 genes.

  • In the absence of three-dimensional structures for variola proteins, it should be possible to substitute those obtained from the highly similar vaccinia virus.

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