| 单词 | variola major |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvariola major variola major n. the original, usually severe form of smallpox, often having a mortality rate of 20–30%.In quot. 1902 the precise sense is unclear. ΘΚΠ 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 1902 Maryland Med. Jrnl. 45 138 The captain admitted that the man had a profuse eruption, which the captain attributed to variola major. 1925 R. W. Jameson in Lancet 10 Jan. 92/1 I consider that to call classical small-pox, small-pox, and the non-fatal variety mild small-pox, alastrim, amaas, &c., even para-variola, is misleading. I would call them variola major and variola minor, and in the vernacular, serious small-pox and weak small-pox. 1997 P. Cornwell Unnatural Exposure viii. 194 All indicators pointed to the devastating, disfiguring disease variola major, more commonly known as smallpox. 2006 L. Collier & J. Oxford Human Virol. (ed. 3) xiv. 114/2 There were two main categories of smallpox, caused by slightly different viruses: variola major had a mortality of about 30 per cent whereas variola minor, or alastrim, killed less than 1 per cent of its victims. < as lemmas |
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