pox /ˈpɑks/
 發疹的疾病,痘,疹,瘟疫


 Pox n.  Med. 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.
 Note: ☞ Pox, when used without an epithet, as in imprecations, formerly signified smallpox; but it now signifies syphilis.


 Pox, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Poxed p. pr. & vb. n. Poxing.] To infect with the pox, or syphilis.

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 pox
      n 1: a common venereal disease caused by the Treponema pallidum
           spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages;
           can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta)
           [syn: syphilis, syph]
      2: a contagious disease characterized by purulent skin
         eruptions that may leave pock marks