variola major

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variola major - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  variola major
      n 1: a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever
           and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form
           scabs that slough off leaving scars [syn: smallpox,
           variola, variola major]
      2: a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of up to 25
         percent [syn: variola major, variola major virus]