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Smallpox vs Variolization - What's the difference?

smallpox | variolization |

As nouns the difference between smallpox and variolization

is that smallpox is (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 while variolization is (medicine|obsolete) variolation: inoculation against smallpox using material from a smallpox lesion.

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

    variolization

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (medicine, obsolete) Variolation: inoculation against smallpox using material from a smallpox lesion