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Referring to, or produced by, particles, such as dust, minute germs, etc. [R.] The smallpox is a particulate disease. Tyndall.

The indentation or mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.

Marked with little pits, as in smallpox. See Pit, v. t., 2.

Broken out, or marked, with smallpox; pock-fretten.

A mark or pit made by smallpox.

Marked by smallpox; pitted.

Full of pocks; affected with smallpox or other eruptive disease. Bp. Hall.

Same as Hypoxanthin.

Same as Hypoxanthin.

which the disease began, as the fever which attends the outbreak of the eruption in smallpox. -- Secondary hemorrhage (Med.), hemorrhage occuring from a wounded blood vessel at some considerable time after the original bleeding has ceased. -- Secondary planet. (Astron.) See the Note under Planet. -- Secondary quali…

ot.), a European herb (Jasione montana) having much the appearance of scabious. -- Sheep pox (Med.), a contagious disease of sheep, characterixed by the development of vesicles or pocks upon the skin. -- Sheep scabious. (Bot.) Same as Sheep's bit. -- Sheep shears, shears in which the blades form the two ends of a st…

The pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific, infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and occurring in three stages known as primary, secondary, and tertiary syphilis. See under Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary.Treponema pallidum. Usu. tretable with penicillin…

, as a flower, fruit, or leaf; navel-shaped; having an umbilicus; as, an umbilicated smallpox vesicle.

depression, or dimpling, of the center of a rounded body; as, the umbilication of a smallpox vesicle; also, the condition of being umbilicated.

To inoculate with the cowpox by means of a virus, called vaccine, taken either directly or indirectly from cows.

The act, art, or practice of vaccinating, or inoculating with the cowpox, in order to prevent or mitigate an attack of smallpox. Cf. Inoculation.

Cowpox; vaccina. See Cowpox.

Chicken pox.

The smallpox.

Inoculation with smallpox.