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pox

(Science: medicine) 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.

Pox, when used without an epithet, as in imprecations, formerly signified smallpox; but it now signifies syphilis.

Origin: For pocks, OE. Pokkes. See Pock. It is plural in form but is used as a singular.


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... moment. There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands, who from a weak constitution would formerly have succumbed to small-pox. Thus the weak members of civilised societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that ...

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by Luxorien
Wed Sep 19, 2012 5:08 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: evolution and endangered species
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by chinee
Thu May 10, 2012 11:36 pm
 
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by scottie
Wed Mar 28, 2012 1:09 pm
 
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Topic: Theories - Origin of Life
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by ChesneMD
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Forum: Microbiology
Topic: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
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by prashantakerkar
Sat Oct 15, 2011 7:31 am
 
Forum: Microbiology
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