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variolous, a.|vəˈraɪələs|
[f. med.L. variola variola, or a. F. varioleux: see -ous.]
1. Of the nature of, resembling (that of), variola or smallpox; of or pertaining to, appearing in, characteristic of, variola.
1676Phil. Trans. XI. 569 The third Epidemical Constitution..was that of the Small-pocks, and of a Variolous Feaver, resembling..the Smal-pocks. 1749Ibid. XLVI. 235 From the Dissections of those who have died of the Small-Pox, we find that the Viscera are subject to the variolous Abscesses. 1780Ibid. LXX. 139 She was delivered of a child, as full of variolous pustules as herself. 1802Med. Jrnl. VIII. 170 [They] thought it [an eruption] had a variolous appearance. 1845Encycl. Metrop. VII. 754/2 When a person has been inoculated with a mixture of the variolous and vaccine poisons. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 639 In these respects its evolution is not unlike that of a variolous or vaccine vesicle.
Comb.1801Med. Jrnl. V. 453 Others were distinguishable by a variolous-like aspect and circular inflammation.
b. variolous matter (variolous fluid or variolous virus), the virus of smallpox, esp. as used for purposes of inoculation.
1747tr. Astruc's Fevers 278 From the first reception of the variolous matter. 1798Jenner Variolæ Vaccinæ (1801) 23 Cow-pox virus..renders the constitution unsusceptible of the variolous. 1800Med. Jrnl. IV. 22, I immediately inoculated the whole party with the most virulent variolous matter I could procure. 1825Good Study Med. (ed. 2) V. 192 When vaccine or variolous fluid is properly inserted under the cuticle. 1875Richardson Dis. Mod. Life 83 He therefore inoculated patients with diluted solutions of variolous matter.
c. variolous contagion, variolous disease, variolous infection, etc., variola, smallpox. ? Obs.
c1792Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) IX. 245/2 The variolous matter only produces the variolous disease. 1799Med. Jrnl. I. 318 In every instance, the patient..has completely lost the susceptibility for the variolous contagion. 1807Ibid. XVII. 27 Six full days..during which they had been exposed to the variolous infection. 1827De Quincey Last Days Kant Wks. 1854 III. 123 He thought, that, as a guarantee against the variolous infection, it required a much longer probation.
2. Of persons: Affected with, suffering from, smallpox.
1668Sydenham Let. Boyle B.'s Wks. 1744 V. 639/2 In visiting..many of my variolous patients. c1792Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) IX. 245/2 Inoculation with the blood of variolous patients hath been tried without effect. 1804Med. Jrnl. XII. 184 Variolous patients. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 207 It is..exceptional to find that the children born of variolous mothers..have had small-pox in uterus.
3. Ent. (See quot.)
1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. xlvi. 270 Variolous (Variolosa), beset with many varioles. |