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Definition of Pox

Pox
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. Note: Pox, when used without an epithet, as in imprecations, formerly signified smallpox; but it now signifies syphilis.
Pox
Pox Pox, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Poxed; p. pr. & vb. n. Poxing.] To infect with the pox, or syphilis.

Meaning of Pox from wikipedia

- Look up pox in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pox may refer to: Poxviridae, a family of viruses Buffalopox, a disease of buffaloes Camelpox, a disease...
- in May 1980. Variola minor was also called white pox, kaffir pox, Cuban itch, West Indian pox, milk pox, and pseudovariola. The genome of variola major...
- Pox parties, also known as flu parties, are social activities in which children are deliberately exposed to infectious diseases such as chickenpox. Such...
- Chickenpox, or chicken pox, also known as varicella,[pronunciation?] is a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease caused by the initial infection...
- Pigeon pox is a viral disease to which only pigeons are susceptible. It is characterized by pox scabs, which most frequently form on the featherless parts...
- of the disease in Italy. In Great Britain it was also called the "Great Pox". In the 16th through 19th centuries, syphilis was one of the largest public...
- Pox (pronounced 'Poshe') is a liquor commonly used for ceremonial purposes among the Mayans of Mexico and Central America. It is made of corn, sugar cane...
- Plum pox, also known as sharka, is the most devastating viral disease of stone fruit from the genus Prunus. The disease is caused by the plum pox virus...
- The P.O.X. is a German psychobilly band formed in 1982. P.O.X. stands for “Psychobilly Orchestra X”. The P.O.X. was founded 1982 in Hanover (Germany) by...
- rugbiorum or "scrumpox" (after rugby football), "wrestler's herpes" or "mat pox" (after wrestling). In one of the largest outbreaks ever among high-school...