Variola

Definition: Variola

Variola

Noun

1. A highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars.

Date "variola" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references)

Etymology: Variola \Va*ri"o*la\, noun. [LL., from the Latin expression varius various. See Various.]. (Websters 1913)

"Variola" is a common misspelling or typo for: areola, cariole, ravioli, vanilla, variable, virile, vitriol.

Specialty Definitions: Variola

Domain	Definitions
Medicine	A generalized virus infection with a vesicular rash. Source: European Union. (references)
	An acute highly contagious viral disease characterised by high fever, severe prostration, and a pinkish rash changing in form from papules to pustules, which dry up and form scabs that are cast off, leaving pitted depressions. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Variola

Synonym: smallpox (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Variola

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Disease	Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Variola

English words defined with "variola": variola major, variola major virus, variola minor, variola minor virus, variola virus. (references)

Specialty definitions using "variola": ovinia. (references)

Etymologies containing "variola": Varicella, Variole, Variolitic, Variolous. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Variola" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Serbo-Croatian (variola).

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Modern Usage: Variola

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Variola vera (1981)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Variola

Domain	Title
Books	Assessment of Future Scientific Needs for Live Variola Virus (Compass Series) (reference) Bioterrorism of Smallpox Variola Virus: Index of New Information and Guide-Book for Consumers, Reference and Research (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Variola

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Child with last case of variola major, Bangladesh.Credit: CDC.		The last known person in the world to have smallpox of any kind. Variola minor in 23-year-old Ali Maow Maalin, Merka, Somalia.Credit: CDC.
	Transmission electron micrograph of the smallpox virus. Poxvirus, Variola.Credit: CDC.		Human infection with monkeypox-like virus in 4 year-old female in Bondua, Grand Gedeh County, Liberia. This infection was caused by a pox virus of the vaccinia, variola, monkeypox type.Credit: CDC.
	Electron micrographs from top to bottom: Variola virion (forms M and C), Varicella virion and virion core, Vaccinia virion (forms M and C).Credit: CDC.		Chorioallantoic membrane infected with variola, stained with rabbit anti-vaccinia conjugate, then viewed using immunofluorescent microscopy technique.Credit: CDC.
	Vaccinia (smallpox) vaccine, derived from calf lymph, and currently licensed in the United States, is a lyophilized, live-virus preparation of infectious vaccinia virus. It does not contain smallpox (variola) virus.Credit: CDC.		Small-Pox : Variola & Vaccinia.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Variola

"Variola" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Variola" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	2	245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Variola

Expressions using "variola": variola major ♦ variola major virus ♦ Variola minor ♦ variola minor virus ♦ Variola Virus. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Variola

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
variola	23
variola virus	8
major variola	4
bovina variola	2
erradicaçao variola	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Variola

Language		Translations for "variola"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		li (flax, pox, small pox, smallpox). (various references)

Arabic		‏جدري (chicken pox). (various references)

Bulgarian		сипаница (exanthema), вариола (smallpox), едра шарка (smallpox). (various references)

Czech		pravé neštovice. (various references)

Danish		variola (smallpox), kopper (cups, feed cups, scoops, smallpox). (various references)

Dutch		variola (smallpox), pokken (smallpox), huiduitslag (exanthema, rash, smallpox). (various references)

French		variole, petite vérole. (various references)

German		Variola (smallpox), Wasserpocke (smallpox), Pocken (pox, smallpox), Pocke (pock, smallpox), Blatter (smallpox). (various references)

Greek		νόσοσ (disease, illness), ευλογιά (smallpox), ευλογία (benison, blessing, grace, smallpox). (various references)

Hebrew		אבעבועות (pox, smallpox). (various references)

Hungarian		himlõ (pock, pox, smallpox). (various references)

Italian		vaiolo (anthracnose, black spot, smallpox). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		天然痘 (smallpox). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		とうそう (chilblains, conflict, desertion, escape, faction, flight, frostbite, smallpox, strife), て�"ね�"とう (smallpox). (various references)

Manx		bolgagh (abdominal, bellied, billowy, blister, bog, bulging, moss, puffy). (various references)

Pig Latin		ariolavay

Portuguese		varíola (praam, smallpox). (various references)

Russian		оспа (pox, smallpox). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		variola. (various references)

Spanish		viruela (pock, pox, smallpox). (various references)

Swedish		smittkoppor (smallpox). (various references)

Turkish		çiçek hastalığı (smallpox). (various references)

Ukranian		віспа (smallpox). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Variola

Derivations
	Words beginning with "variola": variolar, variolas. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Variola"

Words rhyming with "variola" (pronounced 'Va*ri"o*la'): Acanthocephala, Acicula, Actinula, Ala, Algarovilla, Alula, Ametabola, Ampulla, Amygdala, Angola, Anopla, Aquila, Archencephala, Archiblastula, Areola, Armilla, Arolla, Artiodactyla, Auricula, Axilla, Baggala, Bandala, Banderilla, Barilla, bengola, Beteela, Blastula, Bulla, Cabala, Cabrilla, Caffila, Calcavella, Calendula, Calla, Camarilla, Campanula, Canella, Cannicula, Cannula, Capella, Capitula, Cappella, Carambola, Cedilla, Cella, Chinchilla, Chrysocolla, Cicala, Claribella, Coccinella, Codilla, Collembola, Columbella, Columella, Comatula, Copula, Coronilla, Cunabula, Cupola, Cypsela, Cytula, Dendrocoela, Dongola, E-la, Emgalla, Enopla, Euplectella, Fabella, Faecula, Falcula, Fasciola, Favella, Fecula, Fenes-tella, Fibrilla, fibula, fistula, flotilla, Forficula, formula, Foveola, Fovilla, Fringilla, furcula, gala, Ganocephala, Gentianella, Geophila, gorgonzola, gorilla, granadilla, Granilla, Grubbla, guerilla, Gula, Gyrencephala, Hemimetabola, Hexapla, Holometabola, hyperbola, Impalla, Infula, Intermaxilla, Itala, kabala, Kamala, koala, Lacinula, lamella, Lenticula, Ligula, Lingula, Lipocephala, Lirella, Lissencephala, Locustella, lunula, Lyencephala, macula, Magdala, mammilla, mandola, mantilla, Manzanilla, Marginella, Marsala, maxilla, medulla, Mesoscapula, Micella, Miliola, Mochila, Monerula, Monocondyla, morula, Mulla, Myelencephala, Nebula, Neurula, Nubecula, Nucula, Nyula, Octapla, Olla, Orbicula, osteocolla, Padella, Paleola, Palla, palola, Papilla, Papula, Parabola, Paracorolla, Patela, Patella, Patellula, Pathopoela, Peninsula, Pennatula, Penumbrala, Pergola, Perilla, Perissodactyla, Perula, Phainopepla, Phanerodactyla, Philomela, Pimola, Pinnula, Planula, Plumula, Polygala, Postscapula, Praemaxilla, Predella, Premaxilla, Presscapula, Pseudonavicella, Pseudonavicula, Pseudostella, Psylla, Pteryla, Pulsatilla, Pyla, Rachilla, Radula, ranula, ravenala, Retinula, Rhabdocoela, Rhachilla, Rhizocephala, Rhynchocephala, Rhynchonella, Rosella, roseola, Rotella, Rotula, rubella, rubeola, Rupicola, Sabadilla, Sabella, Saccharilla, Saltarella, sapodilla, sarsaparilla, Scagliola, Scala, Scaliola, scapula, scintilla, Scopula, Scrobicula, scrofula, Scybala, Scylla, Semiparabola, Semolella, sequela, Serpula, Serrula, Setula, Sigla, Silicula, Solidungula, spatula, spirula, Spongilla, Sportula, Squamella, Squamula, squilla, Stegocephala, stela, Stipula, Stola, Strobila, Subumbrella, Succula, Sula, Supermaxilla, Supramaxilla, Symphyla, Synapticula, Tabula, Taeniola, Talegalla, tarantella, tarantula, Tegula, tequila, Terebratula, Tetracoralla, Tetrapla, Thecla, Tigella, Tipula, Tola, tortilla, trabecula, Trehala, Tremella, Turbinella, Turritella, Ulula, umbrella, Urodela, Ursula, uvula, Vaginicola, Vaginula, Valhalla, vallecula, Valvula, Vanilla, Varicella, Velella, Vesicula, Villa, Villanella, Vitrella, Vorticella, Whala, Wyla, Zilla, Zoochlorella, Zorilla. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Variola

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: ovarial.
	Words within the letters "a-a-i-l-o-r-v"
	-2 letters: arval, avail, laari, larva, rival, valor, varia, viola, viral, voila, volar.
	-3 letters: alar, aria, aril, arvo, lair, lari, lava, liar, lira, oral, oval, raia, rail, rial, roil, vail, vair, vara, vial, viol, virl.
	-4 letters: aal, ail, air, ala, ava, avo, lar, lav, oar, oil, ora, ova, ria, var, via.
	-5 letters: aa, ai, al, ar, la, li, lo, or.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-i-l-o-r-v"
	+1 letter: variolar, variolas.
	+2 letters: salivator.
	+3 letters: adenoviral, alleviator, behavioral, labiovelar, lavatories, salivators, vacillator.
	+4 letters: advertorial, alleviators, clairvoyant, disapproval, elaborative, invalidator, labiovelars, laborsaving, revaluation, vacillators, vagariously, vaporizable, variational, vasodilator, vibrational.
	+5 letters: advertorials, ameliorative, avariciously, behaviorally, clairvoyance, clairvoyants, derivational, disapprovals, invalidators, malversation, microwavable, overanalysis, overfamiliar, reevaluation, revalidation, revaluations, slavocracies, valorization, vasodilators, velarization, visitatorial, vocabularies.
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