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Meaning of "alastrim" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ALASTRIM

alastrim  [əˈlæstrɪm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ALASTRIM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Alastrim is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ALASTRIM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Alastrim

Alastrim, also known as variola minor, is the milder strain of the variola virus that causes smallpox. Variola minor is of the genus orthopoxvirus, which are DNA viruses that replicate in the cytoplasm of the affected cell, rather than in its nucleus. Like variola major, alastrim is spread through inhalation of the virus in the air, which can occur through face-to-face contact or through fomites. Contagion with variola minor confers immunity against its more dangerous form, variola major. Variola minor is a less common form of the virus, and much less deadly. Although alastrim has the same incubation period and pathogenetic stages as smallpox, alastrim is believed to have a mortality rate of less than 1%, as compared to smallpox's 30%. Because alastrim is a less debilitating disease than smallpox, patients are more frequently ambulant and thus able to infect others more rapidly. As such, variola minor swept through the USA, Great Britain, and South Africa in the early 20th century, becoming the dominant form of the disease in those areas and thus rapidly decreasing mortality rates.

Definition of alastrim in the English dictionary

The definition of alastrim in the dictionary is a form of smallpox caused by the virus Variola minor.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ALASTRIM


Antrim
ˈæntrɪm
betrim
bɪˈtrɪm
brim
brɪm
crim
krɪm
grim
ɡrɪm
Grimm
ɡrɪm
interim
ˈɪntərɪm
Krim
krɪm
Krym
krɪm
Leitrim
ˈliːtrɪm
overtrim
ˌəʊvəˈtrɪm
pilgrim
ˈpɪlɡrɪm
pretrim
priːˈtrɪm
prim
prɪm
Purim
ˈpʊərɪm
retrim
ˌriːˈtrɪm
rim
rɪm
trim
trɪm
trimethoprim
traɪˈmeθəˌprɪm
untrim
ʌnˈtrɪm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ALASTRIM

alarmedly
alarming
alarmingly
alarmism
alarmist
alarum
alary
alas
Alas.
Alaska
Alaska Highway
Alaska Peninsula
Alaska Range
Alaskan
alastor
alate
alated
alation
Alawite
alay

WORDS THAT END LIKE ALASTRIM

Abd-el-Krim
abrim
ad interim
broadbrim
chadarim
hadarim
machzorim
overbrim
Pacific rim
pichurim
scrim
shiurim
siddurim
side trim
sopherim
Tarim
the interim
underbrim
wheel trim
wood trim

Synonyms and antonyms of alastrim in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «alastrim» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ALASTRIM

Find out the translation of alastrim to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of alastrim from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «alastrim» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

alastrim
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

alastrim
570 millions of speakers

English

alastrim
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

alastrim
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

نبخ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

белой оспы
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

alastrim
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

alastrim
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

alastrim
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Alastrim
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

alastrim
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

alastrim
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

alastrim
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Alastrim
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

alastrim
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அலஸ்டிரிம் அம்மை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अल्स्ट्रियम
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

alastrim
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

alastrim
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

alastrim
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

білої віспи
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

alastrim
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

alastrim
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

alastrim
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

alastrim
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

alastrim
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of alastrim

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ALASTRIM»

The term «alastrim» is used very little and occupies the 177.383 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ALASTRIM» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about alastrim

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ALASTRIM»

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1
Orthopoxviruses Pathogenic for Humans
Then, different sensitivities of variola major and variola alastrim viruses to increased temperatures during incubation in chick embryos were demonstrated and the ceiling temperature of lesion development—37.5°C for variola alastrim virus ...
Sergei Nikolaevich Shchelkunov, Svetlana S. Marennikova, Richard W. Moyer, 2006
2
Vaccinia Virus and Poxvirology: Methods and Protocols
Knight and colleagues (8) described a PCR method where alastrim variola minor virus, which causes mild smallpox, can be distinguished from other variola viruses because of a distinctive sequence insertion within the right-end region of  ...
Stuart N. Isaacs, 2004
3
Smallpox: A History
Later called “alastrim,” or “variola minor,” it quickly took hold in the state. Variola major prevailed during the summer of 1897, but thereafter disappeared except for small outbreaks. In its place, alastrim assumed predominance. This disease ...
S.L. Kotar, J.E. Gessler, 2013
4
Jekel's Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Preventive Medicine, ...
minor (alastrim). This was a relatively mild form of smallpox that, although often disfiguring, had a low mortality rate. However, alastrim provided individual and herd immunity against the much more disfiguring and often fatal variola major form ...
Dorothea Wild, Joann G. Elmore, Sean C. Lucan, 2013
5
Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Preventive Medicine
The dominant form of smallpox in the 1970s was variola minor (alastrim). This was a relatively mild form of smallpox, which, although often disfiguring, had a low mortality rate. Yet alastrim provided individual and herd immunity against the  ...
James F. Jekel, David L. Katz, Joann G. Elmore, 2007
6
Nephrosapiens: A History of Man's Thinking about the Kidney
This was an extremely mild version of smallpox known as 'alastrim', from which almost no-one ever died. Alastrim is also known as variola minor, to distinguish it from smallpox (variola major). Alastrim is also known as white pox, kaffir pox (no  ...
Robert D. Cohen, 2012
7
Textbook of Microbiology
Variola minor or alastrim: The mild, nonfatal dis— ease (alastrim) typically seen in Latin America. Variola major and minor were antigenically identi-' cal but they differed in certain biological characteristics. I They were stable variants as the ...
Surinder Kumar, 2012
8
Textbook of Microbiology
Smallpox used to occur in two distinct clinical varieties — the florid, highly fatal disease typically seen in Asia, and the mild, nonfatal disease (alastrim) typically seen in Latin America. The virus causing classical smallpox was called variola ...
Ananthanarayan And Paniker, 2005
9
Possible Worlds
The former is one" of three diseases each of which confers immunity against the others — namely, cow-pox, alastrim, and small-pox. Alastrim is the disease which is now1 spreading among the unvaccinated in Northern England. Although in ...
John B. S. Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, 1940
10
Poxviruses
... UK 198 DQ441445 UNK47_hig Higgins Staffordshire 1947 UK 200 DQ441446 UNK52_but Butler alastrim 1952 UK 207 DQ441447 YUG72_164 Yugoslavia from Iraq 1972 Yugoslavia 201 DQ441448 BRZ66_39 V66-39 alastrim 1966 Brazil ...
Andrew Mercer, Axel Schmidt, Olaf Weber, 2007

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ALASTRIM»

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Kailua Boy Represents Hawaii in National Spelling Bee
He did not imagine that after spelling his second word, alastrim, his name would be among the 49 semifinalists at the bee. “First…I get quizzed ... «iFreePress.com, May 15»
2
Abhilash Yarlagadda: First-time spelling bee contestant is ready to …
He didn't imagine that after spelling his second word, alastrim, his name would be among the 49 semifinalists at the bee. Alastrim is a mild form ... «WCPO, May 15»
3
Ground zero in Australia's fight against infectious diseases
... among workers in a clothing factory in Chalmers St Sydney; this time it was variola minor, a less virulent form of smallpox called alastrim. «ABC Online, Aug 13»
4
Spell-licious: Spelling Bee 2008 Update
In that round, Mou ("virago") and Sloan ("ectrodactylism") advanced to the Semifinals but Temple-Wood was tripped up by "alastrim." The state ... «Chicagoist, May 08»

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