water pox
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See also: waterpox
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Compound of water + pox. Attested from the nineteenth century.
Noun[edit]
- (medicine, dated) A common childhood disease caused by virus; chickenpox, varicella.
- 1801, Philipp Andreas Nemnich, Lexicon Nosologicum Polygloton:
- Water pox. Varicella.
- 1839, “Heim on small-pox and vaccination in the Kingdom of Wirtemberg”, in British and Foreign Medical Review, volume 7:
- Varicella (water-pox, stone-pox, wind-pox,) is said to be often epidemic at the period of the public vaccinations...
Translations[edit]
A common childhood disease caused by virus
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References[edit]
“water pox”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.