Smallpox
['smɔːlpɒks] or ['smɔl'pɑks]
Definition
(noun.) a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars.
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Definition
(n.) A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick crusts which slough after a certain time, often leaving a pit, or scar.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To see people with smallpox in your dream, denotes unexpected and shocking sickness, and probably contagion. You will meet failure in accomplishing your designs.
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Examples
- During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries the annual death rate from smallpox in London ranged from 2 to 4 per 1,000 of population. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the smallpox, taken in the common way. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- When my poor James was in the smallpox, did I allow any hireling to nurse him? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries the annual death rate from smallpox in London ranged from 2 to 4 per 1,000 of population. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the smallpox, taken in the common way. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- When my poor James was in the smallpox, did I allow any hireling to nurse him? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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