(Med.) A mild, eruptive disease, generally attacking children only; varicella. [ 1913 Webster ]
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
n. [ Pref. hypo- + xanthin. ] (Physiol. Chem.) A crystalline, nitrogenous substance, closely related to xanthin and uric acid, widely distributed through the animal body, but especially in muscle tissue; -- called also
n. (Med.) See Cowpox.
Kin"e*scope n. See Kinetoscope. [1913 Webster]
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. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ Pox, when used without an epithet, as in imprecations, formerly signified smallpox; but it now signifies syphilis. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
n. [ Small + pox, pocks. ] (Med.) A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick crusts which slough after a certain time, often leaving a pit, or scar. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Med.) A variety of the chicken pox, with acuminated vesicles containing a watery fluid; the water pox. Pepys. [ 1913 Webster ]
(Med.) A variety of chicken pox, or varicella. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]