variola vaccina

What does variola vaccina mean?

variola vaccina means "a local infection induced in humans by inoculation with the virus causing cowpox in order to confer resistance to smallpox; normally lasts three weeks and leaves a pitted scar".

What is another word for variola vaccina?

Close synonyms include vaccinia, vaccina, variola vaccine, variola vaccinia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is variola vaccina a common word?

variola vaccina is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for variola vaccina come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.