Definitions for variola

variola va·ri·o·la

Spelling: [vuh-rahy-uh-luh]
IPA: /vəˈraɪ ə lə/

Variola is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 138 anagrams from letters in variola (aailorv).

Definitions for variola

noun

  1. smallpox.

Origin of variola

1795-1805; Medieval Latin, equivalent to Latin vari(us) speckled (see various) + -ola -ole1

Examples for variola

Hemorrhagic lesions, isolated or confluent, are seen also in severe forms of variola, not of the two types described above.

How would you distinguish the large acuminated-pustular syphiloderm from acne and variola?

He must learn that diphtheria is, or may be, as dangerous a passenger as variola.

In the invasion stage of the disease it is often impossible to recognize any symptoms characteristic of variola.

The pustular stage of variola might be confounded with the pustular syphiloderm.

In variola the rosy shallow ulcer and healthy pus, with the acutely tumefied glands, should not be mistaken, at least after a day.

There is no chronic form of variola lingering for weeks and months after the violence of the fever has abated.

This looks as if poccas had been the Anglo-Saxon translation of variola.

In measles it is more frequently the former; in scarlatina and variola it comes later as a complication.

In scarlet fever, measles, and variola there is a state of equilibrium between the skin and the intestinal mucous membrane.

Word Value for variola
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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