Meaning of POX
| Pronunciation: | | pâks
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- [n] a contagious disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pock marks
- [n] a common venereal disease caused by the Treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta)
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| | Synonyms: | | syph, syphilis |
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| | See Also: | | chancre, chickenpox, contagion, contagious disease, Cupid's disease, Cupid's itch, neurosyphilis, primary syphilis, secondary syphilis, sexually transmitted disease, smallpox, social disease, tertiary syphilis, varicella, variola, VD, venereal disease, Venus's curse | |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Poxed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Poxing}.]
To infect with the pox, or syphilis.
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| | Related Terms: | | acquired syphilis, balanitis gangrenosa, cerebral tabes, chancre, chancroid, clap, claps, climatic bubo, congenital syphilis, constitutional syphilis, dose, dose of clap, fifth venereal disease, French disease, general paresis, gonorrhea, granuloma inguinale, granuloma venereum, great pox, hard chancre, latent syphilis, locomotor ataxia, morbus Gallicus, paralytic dementia, paresis, pudendal ulcer, simple chancre, social disease, soft chancre, Spanish pox, syph, syphilis, syphilitic meningoencephalitis, tabes, tabes dorsales, tertiary syphilis, tropical bubo, VD, venereal disease |
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