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nouna common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta)
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nouna contagious disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pock markstype of:
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- sars a respiratory disease of unknown etiology that apparently originated in mainland China in 2003; characterized by fever and coughing or difficulty breathing or hypoxia; can be fatal
- cowpox a viral disease of cattle causing a mild skin disease affecting the udder; formerly used to inoculate humans against smallpox
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- pockmarked marked by or as if by smallpox or acne or other eruptive skin disease
- jenner English physician who pioneered vaccination; Jenner inoculated people with small amounts of cowpox to prevent them from getting smallpox (1749-1823)
- pockmark a scar or pit on the skin that is left by a pustule of smallpox or acne or other eruptive disease
- anoxia severe hypoxia; absence of oxygen in inspired gases or in arterial blood or in the tissues
- stagnant hypoxia hypoxia resulting from slow peripheral circulation (such as follows congestive cardiac failure)
- plastination a process involving fixation and dehydration and forced impregnation and hardening of biological tissues; water and lipids are replaced by curable polymers (silicone or epoxy or polyester) that are subsequently hardened
- pseudosmallpox a mild form of smallpox caused by a less virulent form of the virus