Noun variola minor has 2 senses
  1. 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
    --1 is a kind of smallpox, variola, variola major
  2. variola minor, variola minor virus - a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of about 1 percent
    --2 is a kind of variola virus, smallpox virus
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