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
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Wordset Dictionary
a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of up to 25 percent
Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_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'