Smallpox

Noun

 * 1)  An acute, highly infectious often fatal disease caused by a virus of the family Poxviridae. It was completely eradicated in the 1970s. Those who survived were left with pockmarks.
 * 2) * The Europeans brought new diseases such as smallpox, measles, dysentery, influenza, syphilis and leprosy.

Synonyms

 * variola

Verbs for Smallpox
afflict with—; characterize—; contract—; convey—; diagnose as—; expose to—; exterminate—; extirpate—; immunize to—; infect with—; inoculate against—; isolate —; prevent—; quarantine—; succumb to—; transmit—; usher in—; —communicates; — confines; —disfigures; —incubates; —invalids; —marks; —pits; —prostrates; —ravages; —scars; —taints; —vitiates.

Thesaurus
African lethargy, Asiatic cholera, Chagres fever, German measles, Haverhill fever, acute articular rheumatism, ague, alkali disease, amebiasis, amebic dysentery, anthrax, bacillary dysentery, bastard measles, black death, black fever, blackwater fever, breakbone fever, brucellosis, bubonic plague, cachectic fever, cerebral rheumatism, chicken pox, cholera, cowpox, dandy fever, deer fly fever, dengue, dengue fever, diphtheria, dumdum fever, dysentery, elephantiasis, encephalitis lethargica, enteric fever, erysipelas, famine fever, five-day fever, flu, frambesia, glandular fever, grippe, hansenosis, hepatitis, herpes, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, histoplasmosis, hookworm, hydrophobia, infantile paralysis, infectious mononucleosis, inflammatory rheumatism, influenza, jail fever, jungle rot, kala azar, kissing disease, lepra, leprosy, leptospirosis, loa loa, loaiasis, lockjaw, madness, malaria, malarial fever, marsh fever, measles, meningitis, milzbrand, mumps, ornithosis, osteomyelitis, paratyphoid fever, parotitis, parrot fever, pertussis, pneumonia, polio, poliomyelitis, polyarthritis rheumatism, ponos, psittacosis, rabbit fever, rabies, rat-bite fever, relapsing fever, rheumatic fever, rickettsialpox, ringworm, rubella, rubeola, scarlatina, scarlet fever, schistosomiasis, septic sore throat, shingles, sleeping sickness, sleepy sickness, snail fever, splenic fever, spotted fever, strep throat, swamp fever, tetanus, thrush, tinea, trench fever, trench mouth, tuberculosis, tularemia, typhoid, typhoid fever, typhus, typhus fever, undulant fever, vaccinia, varicella, variola, venereal disease, viral dysentery, whooping cough, yaws, yellow fever, yellow jack, zona, zoster

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Chinese: 天花 (tiānhuà)
 * Classical Nahuatl: huēi zahuatl
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: pokken
 * Esperanto: variolo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Pocken, Blattern
 * Greek:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 天然痘 (てんねんとう, tennentō), 疱瘡 (ほうそう, hōsō), 痘瘡	(とうそう, tōsō)
 * Korean: 천연두
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk:
 * Portuguese: varíola
 * Scottish Gaelic: a' bhreac, a' bhanachrach
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: çiçek hastalığı
 * Volapük: pogip