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

1 sense of variola

Sense 1
smallpox, variola, variola major -- (a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars)
       => pox -- (a contagious disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pock marks)