pox /ˈpɑks/
發疹的疾病,痘,疹,瘟疫
Pox n. 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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pox
n 1: a common venereal disease caused by the Treponema pallidum
spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages;
can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta)
[syn: syphilis, syph]
2: a contagious disease characterized by purulent skin
eruptions that may leave pock marks