The term variola is from the Latin varus, a pimple. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
Smallpox, caused by a virus called variola, was declared eliminated in 1980 after a global vaccination campaign. From Wordnik.com. [Cancer Pill may fight Small Pox | Impact Lab] Reference
Home how exceedingly similar were vaccinia and variola. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
It also led Mr. Fenner to study the related variola virus that causes smallpox. From Wordnik.com. [Virologist Helped Eradicate Smallpox] Reference
Some authorities conjecture that the virus of variola belongs to the group of filter-passers. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
Luckilly, I was able to get a hold of some variola before the bad men in government started to make it extinct. From Wordnik.com. [Mosquitoes and Eggs] Reference
The entire herd suffered from variola, displaying its symptomatic pustular eruptions upon their teats and udders. From Wordnik.com. [Even Cowgirls Get The Blues]
The view that vaccinia is attenuated variola is well known, and has been extensively adopted by English physicians. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884] Reference
Jenner waited till the nineteenth of the month, and finding that the boy had still not developed variola, he could hardly write for joy. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
Ayer reports an instance of congenital variola in twins. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
Species: variola vera disease caused by the variola virus. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]]
Ayer 2.173 reports an instance of congenital variola in twins. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
According to Dupony, the first document mentioning variola was in 570 A. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
Among many others offering evidence of variola in utero are Degner, Derham, John. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
#How would you distinguish the large acuminated-pustular syphiloderm from acne and variola?. From Wordnik.com. [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference
The lung is the major portal of entry and transmission for variola virus, the etiologic agent of smallpox. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
As a person becomes infected with the variola virus it will travel through the respiratory tract to the lymph nodes. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]]
I have often observed, that the perspiration or breath of dogs labouring under variola emits a very unpleasant odour. From Wordnik.com. [The Dog] Reference
The lesion is sluggish in its course, drying to a thin crust, which finally falls off, leaving a depressed variola-like scar. From Wordnik.com. [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference
According to Dupony, the first document mentioning variola was in 570 A.D., by Marius, a scholar of Avenches, in Switzerland. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
So Belken got the smallpox shot, which delivers a live form of the virus vaccinia, a milder cousin of the smallpox virus variola. From Wordnik.com. Reference
In variola the rosy shallow ulcer and healthy pus, with the acutely tumefied glands, should not be mistaken, at least after a day. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
Thus in Dr. Cullen's Nosologia the variola or small-pox is termed a genus, and the distinct and confluent kinds are termed species. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
The highly virulent variola and monkeypox viruses express secreted inhibitors of type I interferon FASEB J. doi: 10.1096/fj. 09-144733. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
Fenner, 95, has won awards for his work in helping eradicate the variola virus that causes smallpox and has written or co-written 22 books. From Wordnik.com. [The Times of India] Reference
(variola virus), the narrative of smallpox did not stop with its eradication as a pandemic human disease. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
"Among the acute exanthemata, the following may, up to the present time, be placed in this group; variola-vaccina, scarlatina, and measles. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881] Reference
Smallpox or variola is one of these. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
or variola 906. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Household Management] Reference
(variola). From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
Equine variola, or horsepox, causes, symptoms, treatment, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
Horsepox, or equine variola, causes, symptoms, and treatment, 535-540. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
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