💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Small pox"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| small-poxnoun | Obsolete spelling of smallpox. [(pathology) An acute, highly infectious often fatal disease caused by Variola virus of the family Poxviridae. It was completely eradicated in the 1970s, but still exists in laboratories. Those who survived were left with pockmarks.] |
| swinepoxnoun | A disease of pigs, caused by a virus of the family Poxviridae and the genus Suipoxvirus. |
| plaguenoun | (often used with the, sometimes capitalized: the Plague) The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis. |
| poysonnoun | Obsolete spelling of poison. [A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism when ingested.] |
| porrigonoun | (medicine, obsolete) Any of various skin diseases. |
| boylenoun | Robert Boyle, Irish natural philosopher. |
| epidemicknoun | Obsolete form of epidemic. [A widespread disease that affects many humans in a population.] |
| palaeovirusnoun | Old, obsolete virus. |
| scarrenoun | Obsolete form of scar. [A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.] |
| lazarettenoun | Obsolete spelling of lazaret. [Synonym of lazaretto.] |
| pointnoun | A small dot or mark. |
| murrainnoun | (archaic, uncountable) Infectious disease; pestilence, plague; (countable) sometimes used in curses such as a murrain on someone: an outbreak of such a disease; a plague. |
| leprynoun | (obsolete) leprosy |
| pozenoun | Obsolete form of pose. [(archaic) Common cold, head cold; catarrh.] |
| measlesnoun | (pathology) An acute and highly contagious disease which often afflicts children caused by the virus Measles morbillivirus and causing red rashes, fever, runny nose, coughing, and red eyes. |
| verruganoun | Obsolete form of verruca (“wart”). [(pathology) A wart, especially one that grows on the foot, caused by a human papilloma virus.] |
| false measlesnoun | (archaic) German measles. |
| meazelnoun | Obsolete form of mesel, in its various senses. [(medicine, obsolete) Synonym of leper.] |
| pizenoun | (British, regional, archaic) Used in various imprecatory expressions: a pest, a pox. |
| murrennoun | Obsolete form of murrain. [(archaic, uncountable) Infectious disease; pestilence, plague; (countable) sometimes used in curses such as a murrain on someone: an outbreak of such a disease; a plague.] |
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