pox
pronunciation
How to pronounce pox in British English:
UK [pɒks]
How to pronounce pox in American English:
US [pɑks]
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- Noun:
- a common venereal disease caused by the Treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta)
- a contagious disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pock marks
Word Origin
- pox
- pox: [16] Pox originated as an alternation of pocks, the plural of pock [OE]. This originally denoted a ‘pustule’, and later the ‘scar left by such a pustule, pock-mark’. Pox used to be a common term for ‘syphilis’, but today it is mainly found in compounds such as chickenpox [18] (possibly a reference to the comparative mildness of the disease) and smallpox [16] (so called to distinguish it from the great pox, syphilis).=> pock, pocket
- pox (n.)
- late 15c., spelling alteration of pockes, plural of pocke (see pock (n.)). Especially (after c. 1500) of syphilis.
Example
- 1. Wild birds have caught the canary pox virus , and penguins have been stricken by avian malaria .
- 2. Destroying the remaining stocks of variola , or small pox virus , is seen by some countries as the final chapter in eradicating the disease to prevent the risk of accidental release .
- 3. Please keep your personal hygiene , often take a bath , pay attention to the hair clean and whether the oil , pox is on your face , whether your face is dry .
- 4. The vaccine is a combination of sanofi-pasteur 's alvac canary pox / hiv vaccine and the failed hiv vaccine aidsvax , made by a san francisco company called vaxgen and now owned by the non-profit global solutions for infectious diseases .
- 5. The most common virus responsible is adenovirus , but other viruses have also been identified including herpes simplex , varicella-zoster , picorna , pox , and human immunodeficiency virus .