Definition of pox

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Pox (n.) Strictly, a disease by pustules or eruptions of any kind, but chiefly or wholly restricted to three or four diseases, -- the smallpox, the chicken pox, and the vaccine and the venereal diseases..

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Communication :: Communication (n.) The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret..
Variolation :: Variolation (n.) Inoculation with smallpox.
Cowpock :: Cowpock (n.) See Cowpox.
Sarcin :: Sarcin (n.) Same as Hypoxanthin.
Umbilicated :: Umbilicated (a.) Depressed in the middle, like a navel, as a flower, fruit, or leaf; navel-shaped; having an umbilicus; as, an umbilicated smallpox vesicle..
Catch :: Catch (v. t.) To take or receive; esp. to take by sympathy, contagion, infection, or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to catch the measles or smallpox; to catch cold; the house caught fire..
Poxing :: Poxing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Po.
Confluent :: Confluent (a.) Characterized by having the pustules, etc., run together or unite, so as to cover the surface; as, confluent smallpox..
Hives :: Hives (n.) An eruptive disease (Varicella globularis), allied to the chicken pox..
Vaccination :: Vaccination (n.) The act, art, or practice of vaccinating, or inoculating with the cowpox, in order to prevent or mitigate an attack of smallpox. Cf. Inoculation..
Pocky :: Pocky (superl.) Full of pocks; affected with smallpox or other eruptive disease.
Inoculate :: Inoculate (v. t.) To communicate a disease to ( a person ) by inserting infectious matter in the skin or flesh; as, to inoculate a person with the virus of smallpox,rabies, etc. See Vaccinate..
Chicken Pox :: Chicken pox () A mild, eruptive disease, generally attacking children only; varicella..
Poxed :: Poxed (imp. & p. p.) of Po.
Syphilitic :: Syphilis (n.) The pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific, infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and occurring in three stages known as primary, secondary, and tertiary syphilis. See under Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary..
Pockmarked :: Pockmarked (a.) Marked by smallpox; pitted.
Kinepox :: Kinepox (n.) See Kinetoscope.
Varioloid :: Varioloid (a.) Resembling smallpox; pertaining to the disease called varioloid.
Extractive :: Extractive (n.) Any one of a large class of substances obtained by extraction, and consisting largely of nitrogenous hydrocarbons, such as xanthin, hypoxanthin, and creatin extractives from muscle tissue..
Water Pox :: Water pox () A variety of chicken pox, or varicella..
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