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smallpox (iou) and Bourneville's disease (medicine)


smallpox (iou)



smallpox noun & verb. Also (earlier) smallpocks. E16.
[Alt. of pl. of SMALL-POCK: cf. POX noun.]
A. noun. An acute and sometimes fatal contagious viral disease (now eradicated by vaccination) characterized by fever and a scarring rash of spots which develop into vesicles and then pustules; also called variola. Formerly also pl., the pustules characteristic of this disease. E16.
b. verb trans. Affect or infect with smallpox; fig. cover with little spots or pock-marks. Freq. as smallpoxed ppl adjective. L18.

Bourneville's disease (medicine)


Bourneville's disease -->
tuberous sclerosis
<radiology> (Bourneville disease) autosomal dominant phakomatosis classic triad: seizures, retardation, adenoma sebaceum, calcified subependymal hamartomas, uncalcified tubers in cerebral cortex, enhancing lesion most likely to be malignant transformation to giant cell astrocytoma associated with: skin lesions, angiomyolipoma, increased risk of renal cell carcinoma