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Definition of kinepox

Kinepox
Kinepox Kine"pox`, n. (Med.) See Cowpox. Kin"e*scope, n. See Kinetoscope.
kinepox
Cowpox Cow"pox` (-p[o^]ks`), n. (Med.) 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. --Dunglison.

Meaning of kinepox from wikipedia

- pounds. Kinepox is an alternative term for the smallpox vaccine used in early 19th-century America. Po****rized by Jenner in the late 1790s, kinepox was a...
- Baghdad. This retained all its strength, and was the means of introducing kinepox inoculation into India. The Hindus considered it to be derived from a sacred...
- improvements to roads and canals, aid for the poor, compulsory vaccines for kinepox, and the regulation of bank currency. In 1817, Miner bought the Chester...