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smallpox
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[ noun ] (medicine) a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars
Synonyms Used in print (John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)Her mother had done it before her , and even her old grandmother , who had collected money for smallpox and unwed mothers . |
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