n. | 1. | (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. |
v. t. | 1. | To infect with the pox, or syphilis. |
Noun | 1. | pox - a common venereal disease caused by the Treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta) |
2. | pox - a contagious disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pock marks |