Search Result for "variola_major":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

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]

2. a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of up to 25 percent;
[syn: variola major, variola major virus]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

variola major
    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]
    2: a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of up to 25
       percent [syn: variola major, variola major virus]