vaccinia

See also: Vaccinia

English

A cow's udder with vaccinia pustules

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Latin vacca (“cow”).

Noun

vaccinia (countable and uncountable, plural vaccinias)

1. (medicine) An infection of cowpox.
   • 1842 May 17, Robert Ceely, “Identity of Small-Pox and Cow-Pock”, in Provincial Medical Journal‎^[1]:

     On the other hand, Professor Heim inquired minutely into all the circumstances of the case, and says he is convinced of the variolation of the cow, and of the transmission from her of a disease similar to vaccinia.

2. (by extension) The virus which causes this infection.
   • 2007 May 18, John Schwartz, “Soldier’s Smallpox Inoculation Sickens Son”, in New York Times‎^[2]:

     Since then, a handful of vaccinia cases have been reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including one, described in the May 4 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, of vulvar infection in an Alaskan woman whose sex partner was a serviceman.

Derived terms

• Vaccinia (genus of the vaccinia virus)
• vaccine
• vaccination

Latin

Noun

vaccīnia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of vaccīnium

References

• vaccinia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)