variola minor   (TTS Sound)

The noun variola minor has 2 senses

• alastrim, variola minor, pseudosmallpox, pseudovariola, milk pox, white pox, West Indian smallpox, Cuban itch, Kaffir pox -- (a mild form of smallpox caused by a less virulent form of the virus)


• variola minor, variola minor virus -- (a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of about 1 percent)