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variola vaccina — noun a local infection induced in humans by inoculation with the virus causing cowpox in order to confer resistance to smallpox; normally lasts three weeks and leaves a pitted scar • Syn: ↑vaccinia, ↑vaccina, ↑variola vaccine, ↑variola vaccinia • … Useful english dictionary
variola vaccinia — noun a local infection induced in humans by inoculation with the virus causing cowpox in order to confer resistance to smallpox; normally lasts three weeks and leaves a pitted scar • Syn: ↑vaccinia, ↑vaccina, ↑variola vaccine, ↑variola vaccina •… … Useful english dictionary
vaccine — [ vaksin ] n. f. • 1749; lat. méd. variola vaccina « variole de la vache » 1 ♦ Maladie infectieuse observée chez la vache (⇒ cow pox), le cheval, due à un virus morphologiquement identique au virus de la variole humaine, et dont l inoculation… … Encyclopédie Universelle
Vaccine — For other uses, see Vaccine (disambiguation). A vaccine is a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease causing microorganism, and is often made from… … Wikipedia
variola — SYN: smallpox. [Med. L. dim of L. varius, spotted] v. benigna SYN: varioloid (2). v. hemorrhagica SYN: hemorrhagic smallpox. v. major SYN: smallpox. v. maligna malignant smallpox, usually of the hemorrhagic form. SYN … Medical dictionary
Variola (smallpox) — Highly contagious and frequently fatal viral disease characterized by a biphasic (double humped) fever and a distinctive skin rash that (if the patient survived) left pock marks in its wake. The English physician Edward Jenner (1749 1823)… … Medical dictionary
Smallpox vaccine — The smallpox vaccine was the first successful vaccine ever to be developed. It was first perfected in 1796 by Edward Jenner who acted upon the observation that milkmaids who caught the cowpox virus did not catch smallpox. Before smallpox… … Wikipedia
List of vaccine topics — Flu vaccine This is a list of vaccine related topics. A vaccine is a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease causing microorganism, and is often made… … Wikipedia
Smallpox (variola) — A highly contagious and frequently fatal viral disease characterized by a biphasic (double humped) fever and a distinctive skin rash that (if the patient survived) left pock marks in its wake. It was so named because the pocks were small and the… … Medical dictionary
vaccinia — An infection, primarily local and limited to the site of inoculation, induced in humans by inoculation with the v. virus, type species in the genus Orthopoxvirus (family Poxviridae) in … Medical dictionary
