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varioloid, a. and n. Path.|ˈvɛərɪəlɔɪd|
[ad. mod.L. varioloides, -odes (Frank, c 1790): see variola and -oid. So F. varioloïde, It. vajuoloide.]
A. adj. Resembling variola or smallpox; like that of variola.
In early use ‘applied to a supposed special disease spontaneously developed in our climate under certain atmospheric conditions and capable of being propagated by infection or inoculation’ (Mayne Expos. Lex.).
1821W. Stoker (title), Observations on the Varioloid Disease. 1825Good Study Med. (ed. 2) V. 737 Varioloid eruptions, iii. 88. 1851Leadam Homœopathy 354 Varioloid Diseases. This term is applied to those diseases which resemble small-pox, and are more or less dependent upon the same epidemical constitution of the atmosphere for their production. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 479 Sometimes it [a pathological process] is partial, and a varioloid lesion results.
B. n. A modified form of variola, esp. a mild variety occurring after vaccination or in those who have previously had smallpox.
1828–32in Webster. 1843R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xiv. 148 One of the former was attacked by varioloid just after the crisis of long-continued spotted fever. 1870T. W. Higginson Army Life 234 A case or two of varioloid in the regiment. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 103 A papular appearance which if the rash be scanty, may resemble the early stage of varioloid.
fig.1860Emerson Cond. Life, Culture Wks. (Bohn) II. 364 Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady? |