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Smallpox vs Variolation - What's the difference?

smallpox | variolation |

As nouns the difference between smallpox and variolation

is that smallpox is an acute, highly infectious often fatal disease caused by species: Variola virus of the family Poxviridae. It was completely eradicated in the 1970s. Those who survived were left with pockmarks while variolation is the inoculation of a person with smallpox so as to induce a mild form of the illness and subsequent immunity to it.

smallpox

English

(wikipedia smallpox)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (pathology) An acute, highly infectious often fatal disease caused by of the family Poxviridae . It was completely eradicated in the 1970s. Those who survived were left with pockmarks.
  • * The Europeans brought new diseases such as smallpox , measles, dysentery, influenza, syphilis and leprosy.

    • Synonyms

    * variola

    Derived terms

    * smallpox blanket

    variolation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical) The inoculation of a person with smallpox so as to induce a mild form of the illness and subsequent immunity to it.