1. A highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars
   - smallpox, variola major

Derived forms: variolas

See also: variolous

Type of: pox

Encyclopedia: Variola

• Cliftonia monophylla
• climacteric
• climactic
• climate
• climate change
• climatic
• climatic zone
• climatical
• climatically
• climatological
• climatologist
• climatology
• climax
• climb
• climb on
• climb up
• climb-down
• climbable
• climber
• climbing
• climbing bird's nest fern
• climbing bittersweet
• climbing boneset
• climbing corydalis
• climbing fern