Thesaurus: pox

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1. 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.
2. v. t. To infect with the pox, or syphilis.
3. n. a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta)
4. n. a contagious disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pock marks
5. 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. To infect with the pox, or syphilis.
6. Strictly, a disease by pustules or eruptions of any kind, butchiefly or wholly restricted to three or four diseases, -- thesmallpox, the chicken pox, and the vaccine and the venereal diseases.
7. n:100 n. a contagious disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pock marks