Word.ws English Dictionary

paravaccinia

paravaccinia noun: an infection resulting in milker's nodules, caused by contact with cattle that have pseudocowpox.

Noun

paravaccinia (uncountable)

  1. An infection resulting in milker's nodules, caused by contact with cattle that have pseudocowpox.

Origin of paravaccinia

para- + vaccinia

Questions about paravaccinia

What does paravaccinia mean?
Paravaccinia means an infection resulting in milker's nodules, caused by contact with cattle that have pseudocowpox.
What part of speech is paravaccinia?
Paravaccinia is a noun.

Words near paravaccinia in the dictionary

  1. paraurethral
  2. paraurethral gland
  3. paraurethral glands
  4. parauterine
  5. parautochthonous
  6. paravaccinia
  7. paravaginal
  8. paravaginally
  9. paravail
  10. paravalbumin
  11. paravale

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: paravaccinia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “paravaccinia.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/paravaccinia. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.