Pox

[pox]

A contagious disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pock marks

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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.

Noun
a contagious disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pock marks

Noun
a common venereal disease caused by the Treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta)

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.

v. t.
To infect with the pox, or syphilis.

Pox

Pox , n. [For pocks, OE. pokkes. See Pock. It is plural in form but is used as a singular.] (Med.) 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. &hand; Pox, when used without an epithet, as in imprecations, formerly signified smallpox; but it now signifies syphilis.

Pox

Pox, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Poxed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Poxing.] To infect with the pox, or syphilis.

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.

To infect with the pox, or syphilis.

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