About The Word Pox
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Pox
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What's The Definition Of Pox?
[n] a contagious disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pock marks
[n] a common venereal disease caused by the Treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta) Synonyms | Synonyms for Pox: syph | syphilis Related Terms | Find terms related to Pox: acquired syphilis | balanitis gangrenosa | cerebral tabes | chancre | chancroid | clap | claps | climatic bubo | congenital syphilis | constitutional syphilis | dose | dose of clap | fifth venereal disease | French disease | general paresis | gonorrhea | granuloma inguinale | granuloma venereum | great pox | hard chancre | latent syphilis | locomotor ataxia | morbus Gallicus | paralytic dementia | paresis | pudendal ulcer | simple chancre | social disease | soft chancre | Spanish pox | syph | syphilis | syphilitic meningoencephalitis | tabes | tabes dorsales | tertiary syphilis | tropical bubo | VD | venereal disease See Also | chancre | chickenpox | contagion | contagious disease | Cupid's disease | Cupid's itch | neurosyphilis | primary syphilis | secondary syphilis | sexually transmitted disease | smallpox | social disease | tertiary syphilis | varicella | variola | VD | venereal disease | Venus's curse Pox In Webster's Dictionary \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.
Note: Pox, when used without an epithet, as in imprecations,
formerly signified smallpox; but it now signifies
syphilis.
\Pox\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Poxed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Poxing}.] To infect with the pox, or syphilis. |
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