confluent smallpox
con·flu·ent small·pox
a severe form in which the lesions run into each other, forming large suppurating areas.
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confluent smallpox
An obsolete term for a permutation of smallpox (eradicated in 1977) characterised by confluent suppurative lesions and an often rapid clinical deterioration.Segen's Medical Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.
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But just when he was poised to see his surgical career fully blossom, he died at the age of 34 from the hideous disease of
confluent smallpox. Contrasting with Gray's character was that of Carter who was pensive, tentative, and not outgoing.
The face of a young man with
confluent smallpox, a particularly virulent variety that caused blisters to merge into sheets, was described by Dr.
Others developed
confluent smallpox, a condition with a 60 percent mortality rate in which the pustules ran into each other and sloughed off in great rotten sheets of skin.
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