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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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Kinepox :: Kinepox (n.) See Kinetoscope.

Varicella :: Varicella (n.) Chicken pox.

Efflorescence :: Efflorescence (n.) A redness of the skin; eruption, as in rash, measles, smallpox, scarlatina, etc..

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..

Water Pox :: Water pox () A variety of chicken pox, or varicella..

Pitted :: Pitted (a.) Marked with little pits, as in smallpox. See Pit, v. t., 2..

Hypoxanthin :: Hypoxanthin (n.) A crystalline, nitrogenous substance, closely related to xanthin and uric acid, widely distributed through the animal body, but especially in muscle tissue; -- called also sarcin, sarkin..

Pit :: Pit (v. t.) To mark with little hollows, as by various pustules; as, a face pitted by smallpox..

Confluent :: Confluent (a.) Characterized by having the pustules, etc., run together or unite, so as to cover the surface; as, confluent smallpox..

Pox :: Pox (v. t.) To infect with the pox, or syphilis..

Chicken Pox :: Chicken pox () A mild, eruptive disease, generally attacking children only; varicella..

Pock-broken :: Pock-broken (a.) Broken out, or marked, with smallpox; pock-fretten..

Varioloid :: Varioloid (a.) Resembling smallpox; pertaining to the disease called varioloid.

Swineery :: Swine-pox (n.) A variety of the chicken pox, with acuminated vesicles containing a watery fluid; the water pox..

Communication :: Communication (n.) The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret..

Vaccinate :: Vaccinate (v. t.) To inoculate with the cowpox by means of a virus, called vaccine, taken either directly or indirectly from cows..

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..

Sarkin :: Sarkin (n.) Same as Hypoxanthin.

Kinepox :: Kinepox (n.) See Cowpox.

Poxed :: Poxed (imp. & p. p.) of Po.