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

1 sense of variola vaccina

Sense 1
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)
       => infection -- (the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms)