Definition - Vaccinia

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Vaccinia

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 innoculation with the virus causing cowpox in order to confer resistance to smallpox; normally lasts three weeks and leaves a pitted scar
Cowpox; vaccina. See Cowpox.