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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..

Pockmarked :: Pockmarked (a.) Marked by smallpox; pitted.

Variolous :: Variolous (a.) Of or pertaining to the smallpox; having pits, or sunken impressions, like those of the smallpox; variolar; variolic..

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..

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

Poxing :: Poxing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Po.

Pocky :: Pocky (superl.) Full of pocks; affected with smallpox or other eruptive disease.

Xanthin :: Xanthin (n.) A crystalline nitrogenous body closely related to both uric acid and hypoxanthin, present in muscle tissue, and occasionally found in the urine and in some urinary calculi. It is also present in guano. So called from the yellow color of certain of its salts (nitrates)..

Kinepox :: Kinepox (n.) See Cowpox.

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

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

Kinepox :: Kinepox (n.) See Kinetoscope.

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

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..

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..

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

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..

Cowpock :: Cowpock (n.) See Cowpox.

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