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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
variola /vəˈrʌɪələ/

▶noun Medicine technical term for smallpox.

– derivatives
variolar adjective,
variolous adjective (archaic).

– origin C18: from med. L., lit. ‘pustule, pock’.

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