fulminating smallpox

hem·or·rhag·ic small·pox

a severe and frequently fatal form of smallpox accompanied by extravasation of blood into the skin in the early stage, or into the pustules at a later stage, accompanied often by nosebleed and hemorrhage from other orifices of the body. Synonym(s): fulminating smallpox, variola hemorrhagica

fulminating smallpox

An obsolete term for a permutation of smallpox (eradicated in 1977) characterised by rapid deterioration and death.