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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Smallpox \Small"pox`\, n. [Small + pox, pocks.] (Med.)
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
smallpox
n : a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and
weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs
that slough off leaving scars [syn: {variola}]
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