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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars;
[syn: smallpox, variola, variola major]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Variola \Va*ri"o*la\, n. [LL., fr. L. varius various. See
   Various.] (Med.)
   The smallpox.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

variola
    n 1: a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever
         and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form
         scabs that slough off leaving scars [syn: smallpox,
         variola, variola major]