‖ variola Path.
(vəˈraɪələ)
[med.L. variola pustule, pox, f. L. varius speckled, variegated. Cf. F. variole and vérole (OF. verole, vairole), = Prov. vairolo, Cat. verola, Sp. viruela, It. vajuole fem. pl., and vajuolo.]
The smallpox.
| 1771–1804 [see varicella]. 1825 Good Study Med. (ed. 2) III. 85 The adjunct spurious or bastard variola. 1846 Day tr. Simon's Anim. Chem. II. 282 M. Solon found the urine coagulable in five out of eleven cases of variola. 1877 F. T. Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. 149 Variola may be met with at any age. |
| Comb. 1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 648 Numerous strains of so called variola-vaccine lymph. 1898 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 7 May 1185 The measure of protection afforded these children by his variola-descended lymph. |
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Later recognized as occurring in two forms, variola major and the milder variola minor.
| 1936 J. P. Marsden Crit. Rev. 13,686 Cases Smallpox (Variola Minor) 6 It is maintained here that..‘variola major’ in a vaccinated subject, as in a naturally immune, may be indistinguishable at the bedside, as in the laboratory, from ‘variola minor’. 1987 Oxf. Textbk. Med. (ed. 2) I. v. 81/1 The rash could be profuse, but the lesions were more superficial and the resulting pock marks were less characteristic than those following variola major... This variety was known as variola minor. |