varicelloidadj.n.
/ˌvarᵻˈsɛlɔɪd/, U.S. /ˌvɛrəˈsɛlɔɪd/ Medicine. Now rare.† B. n.
A. adj.
Of a symptom: resembling that of varicella or chickenpox; (of a disease) resembling varicella.
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1818 J. Thomson in Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 14 522 My observation would lead me to believe, that the eruption which succeeds to cow-pock, has more of a vesicular or varicelloid appearance in infants, than it has in adults.
1853 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 26 123 The feet and legs were thickly covered with small varicelloid pimples.
1887 J. W. Matthews Incwadi Yami 109 Kafir pox, a varicelloid disease, believed to attack only natives, also known as ‘Wacht en beitje’ pock (Dutch, ‘wait a bit,’), as it delayed them on their road.
1920 Lancet 25 Dec. 1326/2 Occurrence of several cases of varicelloid rash among persons over 15 at once suggests variola rather than varicella.
1933 Jrnl. Pediatrics 2 307 The literature contains numerous reports of cases in which both herpetic and varicelloid lesions occurred in the same patient.
= varioloid n. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > smallpox
pock1296
variole?a1425
pox1476
small-pockc1510
smallpox?1562
variola1593
little pox?a1649
variolous1676
discrete smallpox1684
varioloid1820
varicelloid1873
variola major1902
whitepox1911
variola minor1925
1873 F. T. Roberts Handbk. Med. 186 Small-pox after Vaccination—Varioloid—Varicelloid.
1885 St. Louis Courier of Med. 13 301 I should qualify this by saying that in some mild cases of varicelloid there were no symptoms of any kind observed by the patient before the appearance of the cutaneous eruption.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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