'Pox' definitions:
Definition of 'pox'
(from WordNet)
noun
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, pox, lues venerea, lues]
noun
A contagious disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pock marks
Definition of 'Pox'
From: GCIDE
- Pox \Pox\, n. [For pocks, OE. pokkes. See Pock. It is plural in form but is used as a singular.] (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. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Pox, when used without an epithet, as in imprecations, formerly signified smallpox; but it now signifies syphilis. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Pox'
From: GCIDE
Synonyms of 'pox'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acquired syphilis,
- balanitis gangrenosa,
- cerebral tabes,
- chancre,
- chancroid,
- clap,
- claps,
- climatic bubo,
- congenital syphilis,
- constitutional syphilis,
- dose,
- dose of clap,
- fifth venereal disease,
- French disease,
- general paresis,
- gonorrhea,
- granuloma inguinale,
- granuloma venereum,
- great pox,
- hard chancre,
- latent syphilis,
- locomotor ataxia,
- morbus Gallicus,
- paralytic dementia,
- paresis,
- pudendal ulcer,
- simple chancre,
- social disease,
- soft chancre,
- Spanish pox,
- syph,
- syphilis,
- syphilitic meningoencephalitis,
- tabes,
- tabes dorsales,
- tertiary syphilis,
- tropical bubo,
- VD,
- venereal disease