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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
- variolous relating to small pox
- hypoxic hypoxia hypoxia resulting from defective oxygenation of the blood in the lungs
- vaccinia a local infection induced in humans by inoculation with the virus causing cowpox in order to confer resistance to smallpox; normally lasts three weeks and leaves a pitted scar