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pox
Found in thesaurus: cupid's disease, social disease, cupid's itch, dose, vd, venus's curse, sexually transmitted disease, venereal disease, venereal infection, contagious disease, contagion
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pox
n.
pimples, small inflammations of the skin; syphilis, type of infectious venereal disease that can affect the entire body
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Pox
A pox is a type of disease, often caused by an animal virus, characterised by pockmarks. The term may be used (in an archaic sense) to refer to disease. Pox, as a disease, may refer to:
- Poxviruses
- Cowpox
- Smallpox, an infectious disease unique to humans, caused by either of two virus variants, Variola major and Variola minor
- Monkeypox, an exotic infectious disease caused by the monkeypox virus
- Black pox, a symptom of smallpox caused by bleeding under the skin, which makes the skin look charred or black and usually indicates that a patient with smallpox is going to die
- Canarypox, an Avipoxvirus and etiologic agent of canarypox, a disease of wild and captive birds that can enter humans but is unable to survive or multiply in human cells
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pox
Noun
1. a common venereal disease caused by the Treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta)
(synonym) syphilis, syph
(hypernym) venereal disease, VD, social disease, Cupid's itch, Cupid's disease, Venus's curse, sexually transmitted disease
(hyponym) primary syphilis
(part-meronym) chancre
2. a contagious disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pock marks
(hypernym) contagious disease, contagion
(hyponym) smallpox, variola, variola major
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Pox
(v. t.)
To infect with the pox, or syphilis.
To infect with the pox, or syphilis.
(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.
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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POX
Airport Name: Pontoise Airport
Airport Location: Paris, France
IATA Code: POX
ICAO Code: LFPT
Airport Location: Paris, France
IATA Code: POX
ICAO Code: LFPT
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