variola-major

Nouns

  • (n) 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,
  • (n) a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of up to 25 percent variola major virus,

Synonyms

smallpox variola variola major virus

Words of close approximity

variola major virus