a. Path. [f. VARICELL-A + -OUS.] Of or relating to, affected with, of the nature of, varicella or chicken-pox.
1822. Edin. Rev., XXXVIII. 333. The boy sleeping with his varicellous brother would become varicellous.
1825. Good, Study Med. (ed. 2), III. 81. Every variety to which the small-pox can make any fair pretension, distinct, confluent, crystallized or varicellous. Ibid., 92. This slightness of irritability in the fluid of the varicellous vesicle.
1897. Brit. Med. Jrnl., 28 Aug., 33. Varicellous Laryngitis.
