Pox

Word POX
Character 3
Hyphenation pox
Pronunciations /pɑks/

Definitions and meanings of "Pox"

What do we mean by pox?

A disease such as chickenpox or smallpox, characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pockmarks. noun

Syphilis. noun

Misfortune or calamity. noun

To communicate the pox or venereal disease to.

A disease characterized by eruptive pocks or pustules upon the body. noun

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. noun

To infect with the pox, or syphilis. transitive verb

A disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pockmarks. noun

Syphilis. noun

To infect with the pox, or syphilis. verb

A common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta) noun

A contagious disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pock marks noun

A disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pockmarks.

Syphilis.

A curse.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Pox

The word "pox" in example sentences

Bozo The Neoclown says: one again pox is wrong. bill clinton has government run health care insurance thanks to his stint as president. much like the geriatrics who watch pox all day, also covered by government run medicare. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Nothing discredits an administration like attacking a news organization. pox is not a news organization. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Bozo The Neoclown says: so, lemmie get this straight. maybe one percent of the population of this country tunes in pox news and cancervatards crow this is a stunning success? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Now as to the first Inoculation for the small pox is almost always a great mitigator of the evils of that disease. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I think the incubation time for chicken pox is under a week though, right? ❋ Ewe Are Here (2008)

Chicken pox is usually fairly harmless, but it can, under certain circumstances, be extremely dangerous. ❋ Ewe Are Here (2008)

In China small-pox is believed to date from B.C. 1200; but the chronology of the Middle Kingdom still awaits the sceptic. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Ron says: vaccinating for chicken pox is stupid, Albert. ❋ Unknown (2005)

I still think that pathetic picture of her with her pox is about the most heart-wrenching picture I’ve seen. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The small-pox is a very grievous and painful disease, and would be much more terrible than it is but that we know the extremity of it ordinarily lasts but a few days; how grievous then was the disease of Job, who was smitten all over with sore boils or grievous ulcers, which made him sick at heart, put him to exquisite torture, and so spread themselves over him that he could lie down no way for any ease. ❋ Unknown (1721)

The invasion of Abraha the Abyssinia took place during the year of Mohammed’s birth; and yet in an early chapter of the Koran (No. cv.) written perhaps forty-five years afterwards, the small-pox is turned into a puerile and extravagant miracle. ❋ Unknown (2006)

You can call a pox on both our houses or you can change things yourself. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Russ Feingold would accomplish more if he just held up his middle finger and called a pox on both of your houses. ❋ Unknown (2006)

“I suppose,” Lady Mary wrote with pardonable pride to Lady Mar in the spring of 1722, “that the same faithful historians give you regular accounts of the growth and spreading of the inoculation of the small-pox, which is become almost a general practice, attended with great success.” ❋ Melville, Lewis (1925)

This is the first use of the word _vaccination_, or, more familiarly, cow-pox, which is an eruption arising from the insertion into the system of matter obtained from the eruption on the teats and udders of cows, and especially in Gloucestershire; it is also frequently denominated _vaccine matter_; and the whole affair, inoculation and its consequences, is called vaccination, from the ❋ Unknown (1906)

Buret traces the origin of the word syphilis from, with, and, love, the companion of love; which means in plain language that the pox is a disease transmitted more especially by venereal relations. ❋ Unknown (1896)

Buret traces the origin of the word syphilis from sun, with, and filia, love, the companion of love; which means in plain language that the pox is a disease transmitted more especially by venereal relations. ❋ Unknown (1896)

The kine pox, which is a similar disease, is well known to either prevent or materially modify smallpox; and so I could go on enumerating cases where Allopathic physicians treat their patients in accordance with the Homoeopathic law of cure. ❋ Ellis, John, 1815-1896 (1892)

As this was an affair of quite an alarming nature, the General made strict inquiry into it; and ascertained that some unlicensed traders had, the preceding summer, carried up the small pox, which is fatal to the Indians; and that several of their warriors, as well as others, had fallen victims to the distemper. ❋ Harris, Thaddeus M (1838)

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