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varioloid

[ vair-ee-uh-loid ]

adjective

  1. resembling smallpox.
  2. of or relating to a mild case of smallpox.


noun

  1. a mild smallpox, especially as occurring in persons who were vaccinated or previously had the disease.

varioloid

/ ˈ±¹É›É™°ùɪəˌ±ôɔɪ»å /

adjective

  1. resembling smallpox
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a mild form of smallpox occurring in persons with partial immunity
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of varioloid1

First recorded in 1815–25; variol(a) + -oid
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Example Sentences

Examples have not been reviewed.

The fact is thus fully established that the protection afforded by successful vaccination varies in time with different cases, and that the liability to varioloid is greatest between the ages of 15 and 25 years.

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Statistics further show that about one half of those who have had the vaccine disease as a result of vaccination, are liable to a modified form of small pox called varioloid, approaching more or less in violence to malIgnant types of the disease.

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First, if there has been exposure, there is time for vaccination to be performed, and to develop the vaccine disease before the small pox shall appear, and to modify the latter into the milder type of varioloid.

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With the present light upon the subject, it would seem to be an instance of the origination anew of a malignant type of varioloid disease.

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The symptoms of the class of patients commonly regarded as suffering from varioloid are all those of variola, modified, however, in the direction of a mitigation of their intensity and dangerous character.

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