smallpox

«smallpox» in Mova's school dictionary: Smallpox was a very serious, catching disease that caused… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (smallpox — uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) Smallpox was a very serious, catching disease that caused a high fever and spots that turned into blisters, often leaving deep scars or killing people. tree →

2) Smallpox is the first human disease ever wiped out completely from the world, thanks to vaccination. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history and science lessons smallpox comes up in the story of vaccines: Edward Jenner noticed that milkmaids who caught mild cowpox did not get smallpox, and he made the first vaccine (the word comes from «vacca», Latin for cow). Pupils also learn that diseases like smallpox, brought by Europeans, killed huge numbers of indigenous people in the Americas and Australia. A worldwide vaccination campaign later ended smallpox completely.

examples

• Smallpox was once one of the deadliest diseases. tree →
• Edward Jenner used cowpox to protect people from smallpox. tree →
• Thanks to vaccines, nobody catches smallpox any more. tree →
• Smallpox left many survivors with scars. tree →
• Smallpox brought from Europe killed many Native Americans. tree →
• Smallpox was the first disease to be wiped out by people. tree →
• Doctors around the world worked together to end smallpox. tree →

note

Uncountable: «smallpox», not «a smallpox». One word. It is not the same as chickenpox, which is a much milder, common childhood illness. Now only kept in a few laboratories.

In the corpora

• Edward Jenner made the first vaccine in 1796 from cowpox, and smallpox was declared wiped out worldwide in 1980.
• The World Health Organization helped to wipe out smallpox, whose last natural case was in 1977.
• A civil war and smallpox had already weakened the Inca, and Spain took over their empire.
• In 1796 Edward Jenner protected a boy from smallpox by giving him the much milder cowpox.
• Smallpox, which once killed millions, was wiped out completely in 1980 thanks to vaccines.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «smallpox» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.