Small-pox

  • 1small|pox — «SML POKS», noun. a very contagious disease with a fever and blisters on the skin that often leave permanent scar shaped like little pits; variola. »Smallpox is a viral disease that has been brought under control by the use of vaccine... (Sidonie …

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  • 2small-pox — n. Variola …

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  • 3small·pox — /ˈsmɑːlˌpɑːks/ noun [noncount] : a serious disease that causes fever and a rash and often death ◇ Smallpox is now very rare …

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  • 5POX 186 — is a small galaxy that is still forming. The galaxy is considered very small and distorted compared to most older galaxies, such as our own Milky Way Galaxy. It is currently believed to have first begun forming when two enormous clouds of gas and …

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  • 6pox disease — carp pox (one of the oldest known fish diseases found in cultured carp, other cyprinids, pike perch and aquarium fishes. It is caused by Herpesvirus cyprini. Also known as carp papillomatosis, epithelioma papulosum, fish pox, cyprinid herpesvirus …

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  • 7pox — pÉ‘ks /pÉ’ks n. pimples, small inflammations of the skin; syphilis, type of infectious venereal disease that can affect the entire body …

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  • 8cow pox — cow disease which contains a virus used in the vaccination of humans against small pox …

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  • 9horse-pox — ⇒HORSE POX, subst. masc. Vaccine spontanée du cheval (d apr. Méd. Biol. t. 2, 1971). Prononc. : [ ] init. aspirée. Étymol. et Hist. 1864 (L. FIGUIER, L Année scientifique et industrielle, 1865, p. 369 ds REY GAGNON Anglic. 1981). Mot angl.… …

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  • 10pigeon pox — noun : a virus disease of pigeons which is closely related to fowl pox and the virus of which is often used to produce a vaccine against fowl pox that is safer though less lastingly effective than that prepared with fowl pox virus * * * Vet.… …

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