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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the obsolete process of inoculating a susceptible person with material taken from a vesicle of a person who has smallpox;
[syn: variolation, variolization]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

variolization
    n 1: the obsolete process of inoculating a susceptible person
         with material taken from a vesicle of a person who has
         smallpox [syn: variolation, variolization]