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Variola Major

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars

polysemousMWE

Classifications

Entity Type

Unknownauthoritativeglossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
smallpox
plural
Variola Majors
possessive
Variola Major's
pluralpossessive
Variola Majors'