English Dictionary:
- 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.
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