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smallpox

English

Etymology

From small +? pox.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?sm??lp?ks/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /?sm?lp?ks/

Noun

smallpox (usually uncountable, plural smallpoxes)

  1. (medicine) An acute, highly infectious often fatal disease caused by Variola virus of the family Poxviridae. It was completely eradicated in the 1970s. Those who survived were left with pockmarks.
    Synonym: variola

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mousepox

English

Etymology

mouse +? pox

Noun

mousepox (uncountable)

  1. A skin disease of mice, similar to smallpox, caused by the poxvirus species Ectromelia virus.

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