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Varicella

noun
1.
An acute contagious disease caused by herpes varicella zoster virus; causes a rash of vesicles on the face and body.  Synonym: chickenpox.



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... and even Malaria are reported as having been transmitted to the child in utero. Hubbard attended a woman on March 17, 1878, in her seventh accouchement. The child showed the rash of varicella twenty-four hours after birth, and passed through the regular coarse of chicken-pox of ten days' duration. The mother had no signs of the disease, but the children all about her were infected. Ordinarily the period of incubation ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould



Words linked to "Varicella" :   herpes varicella zoster virus, pox, chickenpox



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