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vacciolous

vacciolous adjective: pertaining to the cowpox virus.

Adjective

vacciolous (comparative more vacciolous, superlative most vacciolous)

  1. Pertaining to the cowpox virus.
    • Cow-pox, or, as I have proposed to name them, the Vacciola scutellata and leprosa, as nothing within my sphere of observation has tended to retard the progress of the new inoculation so much as the difficulty which inexperienced inoculators find in learning to distinguish the two diseases, which...1801, Jonathan Stokes, “Letters to the Editor”, in The London Medical and Physical Journal, volume 6, page 386
    • In the year 1801, a gentleman inoculated his own two boys and two of his servants with vacciolous matter, that was sent by Dr. Pearson; on the eighth, tenth, and twelfth days I Saw their arms, and was well satisfied that vacciolation had taken place.1804, Frederic Thackeray, “Letters to the Editor”, in The Medical and Physical Journal, volume 12, page 331

Examples of vacciolous in a sentence

  • The object of this society is the total extermination of the small pox, by substituting in its stead the vacciolous.1804, John Feltham, The Picture of London, for 1804, page 216:
  • … on the fore parts of each labium were three or four very distinct and well formed circular pustules, evidently of the genuine vacciolous kind?1804, Mr. Coley, “A Case of Inoculated Cow-Pock Succeeded by a Confluent Eruption of Genuine Vaccine Vesicles on the Labia Pudendi...

Forms of vacciolous

comparativemore vacciolous
superlativemost vacciolous

Origin of vacciolous

From Latin vacca (“cow”) + -i- + -ole + -ous.

Words formed from vacciolous

Questions about vacciolous

What does vacciolous mean?
Vacciolous means pertaining to the cowpox virus.
How do you use vacciolous in a sentence?
The object of this society is the total extermination of the small pox, by substituting in its stead the vacciolous.
What part of speech is vacciolous?
Vacciolous is an adjective.

Words near vacciolous in the dictionary

  1. vacciolated
  2. vacciolates
  3. vacciolating
  4. vacciolation
  5. vacciolations
  6. vacciolous
  7. vaccs
  8. vaccutainer
  9. Vacek
  10. Vaceks
  11. vach nacht

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