Associations to the word «Variola»

Wiktionary

VARIOLA, noun. (diseases) smallpox

Dictionary definition

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

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats