varioloid

[ vair-ee-uh-loid ]

adjective

1. resembling smallpox.
2. of or relating to a mild case of smallpox.

noun

1. a mild smallpox, especially as occurring in persons who were vaccinated or previously had the disease.

varioloid

/ ˈvɛərɪəˌlɔɪd /

adjective

1. resembling smallpox

noun

1. a mild form of smallpox occurring in persons with partial immunity

Other Words From

• post·vari·o·loid adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of varioloid¹

First recorded in 1815–25; variol(a) + -oid

Example Sentences

The fact is thus fully established that the protection afforded by successful vaccination varies in time with different cases, and that the liability to varioloid is greatest between the ages of 15 and 25 years.

From Scientific American

Statistics further show that about one half of those who have had the vaccine disease as a result of vaccination, are liable to a modified form of small pox called varioloid, approaching more or less in violence to malIgnant types of the disease.

From Scientific American

First, if there has been exposure, there is time for vaccination to be performed, and to develop the vaccine disease before the small pox shall appear, and to modify the latter into the milder type of varioloid.

From Scientific American

With the present light upon the subject, it would seem to be an instance of the origination anew of a malignant type of varioloid disease.

From Project Gutenberg

Variola and varioloid of infants and children are to be distinguished from varicella by the evidence of origin from such contagious maladies; by the occurrence of prodromal symptoms; by the greater rise in temperature during the febrile stage; by the typically papular stage of the exanthem at its outset, and no less typically pustular stage before the occurrence of desiccation; by the confluence of lesions in confluent cases; and by the much longer and evidently graver stadium of the disease.

From Project Gutenberg