vaccinia

The usually mild, cutaneous and sometimes systemic reaction in individuals who have been inoculated with smallpox vaccine.

A specific eruptive disease occurring in cattle, especially in milch cows.

Cowpox; vaccina. See cowpox.

An infection of cowpox; or the virus which causes this infection

a viral disease of cattle causing a mild skin disease affecting the udder; formerly used to inoculate humans against smallpox

a local infection induced in humans by inoculation with the virus causing cowpox in order to confer resistance to smallpox; normally lasts three weeks and leaves a pitted scar