varioloid

American  

[vair-ee-uh-loid] / ˈvɛər i əˌlɔɪd /

adjective

1. resembling smallpox.

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

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noun

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

varioloid British  

/ ˈvɛərɪəˌlɔɪd /

adjective

1. resembling smallpox

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noun

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

Other Word Forms

• postvarioloid adjective

Etymology

Origin of varioloid

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

The identity of varioloid with variola is abundantly shown—first, by the occurrence of intermediate forms of every grade, from the mildest evidence of variolous poisoning to typically developed cases of variola vera; second, by the fact that patients affected with varioloid are capable of transmitting variola to the unprotected; third, by the anatomico-pathological fact that the structure of the pock, when it appears, is the same in all.

From Project Gutenberg