Boa (morbus)
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Vide etiam paginam discretivam: Boa.
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Boa (-ae, f.)[1] est nomen variolae vetum et plenam papularum cutem describit. Nomen "boa" de variola bovis (boaria) derivatus est, cuius citor orthopoxvirus bovis est.
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[recensere | fontem recensere]- ↑ Stephanus Blancardus, Lexicon Medicum (1748), lemma 'boa'