pox – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
מילים נרדפות: cupid's disease,
social disease,
cupid's itch,
dose,
vd,
venus's curse,
sexually transmitted disease,
venereal disease,
venereal infection,
contagious disease,
contagion
pox
n.
pimples, small inflammations of the skin; syphilis, type of infectious venereal disease that can affect the entire body
Pox
A
pox is a type of disease, often caused by an animal virus, characterised by
pockmarks. The term may be used (in an archaic sense) to refer to disease.
Pox, as a disease, may refer to:
- Poxviruses
- Cowpox
- Smallpox, an infectious disease unique to humans, caused by either of two virus variants, Variola major and Variola minor
- Monkeypox, an exotic infectious disease caused by the monkeypox virus
- Black pox, a symptom of smallpox caused by bleeding under the skin, which makes the skin look charred or black and usually indicates that a patient with smallpox is going to die
- Canarypox, an Avipoxvirus and etiologic agent of canarypox, a disease of wild and captive birds that can enter humans but is unable to survive or multiply in human cells
pox
Noun
1. a common venereal disease caused by the Treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta)
(synonym) syphilis, syph
(hypernym) venereal disease, VD, social disease, Cupid's itch, Cupid's disease, Venus's curse, sexually transmitted disease
(hyponym) primary syphilis
(part-meronym) chancre
2. a contagious disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pock marks
(hypernym) contagious disease, contagion
(hyponym) smallpox, variola, variola major
Pox
(v. t.)
To infect with the pox, or syphilis.
(n.)
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
POX
Airport Name: Pontoise Airport
Airport Location: Paris, France
IATA Code: POX
ICAO Code: LFPT
