smallpox的意思|smallpox的解释-里氏词典

smallpox ['smɒ:lpɒks]

n. 天花

[医] 天花, 痘疮

smallpox

[ noun ]
a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars
<noun.state>

Smallpox \Small"pox`\, n. [Small + pox, pocks.] (Med.)
A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized
by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at
first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first
flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and
finally thick crusts which slough after a certain time, often
leaving a pit, or scar.

Carter has also persuaded the World Health Organization to target guinea worm disease, which sometimes has fatal complications, as the second disease _ after smallpox _ that the agency seeks to wipe out worldwide.
Workers who plan to excavate an old hospital cemetery will be given smallpox vaccinations because the virus, which has been declared eradicated worldwide, could still be lurking underground.
His first targets were acute communicable diseases such as cholera and smallpox.
It was used at various times through history to house British and American soldiers, smallpox victims and single women and widows.
Products from sharks' immune system have shown promise in treating diseases, he said. "They are not only able to make antibodies, they already have antibodies to many disease that they would never see or get, such as human smallpox.
It reported a suicide by hanging, the spread of a smallpox epidemic and rumors about improprieties by the king of France.
Even if smallpox is extinct, a similar disease might occur if a related animal virus such as monkey pox mutated into a form that infected humans.
"I'm not saying one is better than the other, but it's a different approach," said Livingston, whose work uses purified chemicals taken from cancer cells, while Wallack's uses cancer-cell membranes mixed with smallpox vaccine virus.
The synthetic vaccine was produced by splicing a protein from the outer surface of the AIDS virus onto the vaccinia virus, a staple vaccine long used to immunize people against smallpox.
WHO led a global drive that eradicated smallpox by the late 1970s.
While Saxons and Franks fought over feudal Europe, scholars in Damascus, Cairo and Baghdad translated Aristotle, and Arab doctors developed an inoculation against smallpox.

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