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Webster 1913 Edition

Varioloid

Va′ri-o-loid

(?; 277)
,
Adj.
[
Variola
+
-oid
: cf. F.
varioloïde
.]
(Med.)
Resembling smallpox; pertaining to the disease called varioloid.

Va′ri-o-loid

,
Noun.
[Cf. F.
varioloïde
. See
Varioloid
,
Adj.
]
(Med.)
The smallpox as modified by previous inoculation or vaccination.
☞ It is almost always a milder disease than smallpox, and this circumstance, with its shorter duration, exhibits the salutary effects of previous vaccination or inoculation.
Dunglison.

Webster 1828 Edition

Varioloid

VA'RIOLOID

,
Noun.
[L. variolae and Gr. form.
The name recently given to a disease resembling the small pox.

Definition 2024

varioloid

varioloid

English

Adjective

varioloid ‎(comparative more varioloid, superlative most varioloid)

  1. Of or resembling smallpox

Noun

varioloid ‎(plural varioloids)

  1. A milder outbreak of smallpox occurring in a person who has previously been infected.

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