Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun progressive_vaccinia

1 sense of progressive vaccinia

Sense 1
progressive vaccinia, vaccinia gangrenosa -- (a severe or even fatal form of vaccinia that occurs mainly in persons with an immunological deficiency; characterized by progressive enlargement of the initial lesion)
       => vaccinia, vaccina, variola vaccine, variola vaccinia, variola vaccina -- (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)