pox (poks) any eruptive or pustular disease, especially one caused by a virus, e.g., chickenpox, cowpox, etc.
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pox (p ks)n. 1. A disease such as chickenpox or smallpox, characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pockmarks. 2. Syphilis. |
Pox
A pus-filled bump on the skin.
Mentioned in: Smallpox
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Etymology: ME, pokkes, pustules
1 any of several vesicular or pustular exanthematous diseases terminating in scars.
2 the pitlike scars of smallpox or chicken pox.
3 archaic. syphilis.
pox
a group of diseases caused by poxviruses and affecting primarily the skin and manifested by a characteristic progression of lesions from erythema to papule to vesicle to pustule to a round, reddish, raised scab about 0.5 inch diameter to a pock mark which remains at the site of lesions after healing. Includes buffalopox, camelpox, canarypox, catpox, cowpox, ectromelia (2), elephantpox, fowlpox, goatpox, horsepox, monkeypox, parrotpox, pseudocowpox, rabbitpox, sealpox, sheeppox, swinepox.
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Infection disease See Chickenpox, Smallpox.
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