poxes

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plural of pox
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A disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pockmarks
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{n} the veneral disease, pustules
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A general term for the several oxides of phosphorus
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Syphilis
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a contagious disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pock marks
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To infect with the pox, or syphilis
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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
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People sometimes refer to the disease syphilis as the pox. see also chickenpox, smallpox
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{i} pimples, small inflammations of the skin; syphilis, type of infectious venereal disease that can affect the entire body
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a common venereal disease caused by the Treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta)