| 释义 |
〔smallpox〕An acute, highly infectious, often fatal disease caused by a poxvirus and characterized by high fever and aches with subsequent widespread eruption of pimples that blister, produce pus, and form pockmarks. Also called variola 天花：一种严重的，传染性强，常常引起死亡的疾病，由痘病毒而引起，症状为高烧和剧痛，接下来是大面积地起斑点，这些斑点会起水疱、化脓或出麻子 也作 variola〔poxvirus〕Any of a group of DNA-containing viruses, including those that cause smallpox, cowpox, and other poxlike diseases in vertebrates.痘病毒：一组含脱氧核糖核酸的病毒，包括那些在脊椎动物中引起天花、牛痘以及其他类似疾病的病毒 |