Definition of pox

Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of pox is as below...

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..

Lern More About Pox

Confluent :: Confluent (a.) Characterized by having the pustules, etc., run together or unite, so as to cover the surface; as, confluent smallpox..
Varioloid :: Varioloid (a.) The smallpox as modified by previous inoculation or vaccination.
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..
Cowpox :: Cowpox (n.) A pustular eruptive disease of the cow, which, when communicated to the human system, as by vaccination, protects from the smallpox; vaccinia; -- called also kinepox, cowpock, and kinepock..
Pit :: Pit (v. t.) To mark with little hollows, as by various pustules; as, a face pitted by smallpox..
Swineery :: Swine-pox (n.) A variety of the chicken pox, with acuminated vesicles containing a watery fluid; the water pox..
Sarkin :: Sarkin (n.) Same as Hypoxanthin.
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..
Variola :: Variola (n.) The smallpox.
Variolation :: Variolation (n.) Inoculation with smallpox.
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..
Fretten :: Fretten (a.) Rubbed; marked; as, pock-fretten, marked with the smallpox..
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..
Pockmark :: Pockmark (n.) A mark or pit made by smallpox.
Varicella :: Varicella (n.) Chicken pox.
Variolous :: Variolous (a.) Of or pertaining to the smallpox; having pits, or sunken impressions, like those of the smallpox; variolar; variolic..
Sarcin :: Sarcin (n.) Same as Hypoxanthin.
Vaccinate :: Vaccinate (v. t.) To inoculate with the cowpox by means of a virus, called vaccine, taken either directly or indirectly from cows..
Efflorescence :: Efflorescence (n.) A redness of the skin; eruption, as in rash, measles, smallpox, scarlatina, etc..
Umbilication :: Umbilication (n.) A slight, navel-like depression, or dimpling, of the center of a rounded body; as, the umbilication of a smallpox vesicle; also, the condition of being umbilicated..
Random Fonts
Most Popular

close
Privacy Policy   GDPR Policy   Terms & Conditions   Contact Us