Pox
noun
A disease causing sores on the skin, typically caused by a virus.
Smallpox was a deadly pox that was eradicated in the 20th century.
Often appears as...
- smallpox
- chickenpox
noun
Used to express annoyance or wish harm on someone.
A pox on him for leaving us in this mess!
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Idiomatic
noun
A disease causing sores on the skin, typically caused by a virus.
Smallpox was a deadly pox that was eradicated in the 20th century.
Often appears as...
- smallpox
- chickenpox
noun
Used to express annoyance or wish harm on someone.
A pox on him for leaving us in this mess!
Usage tips
Idiomatic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Importance
Often used in historical texts when discussing epidemics that shaped human history.
The pox epidemics transformed societies.
Pro Tip 2/3Medical Context
Primarily used in medical history, less common in modern medical discussions.
Physicians in the past studied various forms of pox.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Humans
Can refer to similar diseases in animals, like cowpox affecting cattle.
Researchers examined cowpox to understand human pox viruses better.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Importance
Often used in historical texts when discussing epidemics that shaped human history.
The pox epidemics transformed societies.
Pro Tip 2/3Medical Context
Primarily used in medical history, less common in modern medical discussions.
Physicians in the past studied various forms of pox.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Humans
Can refer to similar diseases in animals, like cowpox affecting cattle.
Researchers examined cowpox to understand human pox viruses better.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Importance
Often used in historical texts when discussing epidemics that shaped human history.
The pox epidemics transformed societies.
Pro Tip 2/3Medical Context
Primarily used in medical history, less common in modern medical discussions.
Physicians in the past studied various forms of pox.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Humans
Can refer to similar diseases in animals, like cowpox affecting cattle.
Researchers examined cowpox to understand human pox viruses better.
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Safari Live - Day 384 PIPE...
jogging after her he's decided the smell of her urine indicates that she is perhaps receptive to mating he has not picked up on the fact that she's leaving because she is not receptive to mating and elephants in the background a lot of you saying that I am going to get stuck well a pox on all of you and to those
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Why we need to talk...
that's the struggle, that's depression, and depression isn't chicken pox. You don't beat it once and it's gone forever. It's something you live with. It's something you live in. It's the roommate you can't kick out. It's the voice you can't ignore. It's the feelings you can't seem to escape,
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Inside the Tornado PIPE...
of debris pox where who knows what actually impacted the probe with the new data from the probe Tim made a surprising discovery the barometric pressure inside a tornado drops farther than anyone realized helping explain how tornadoes maintain their strength
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6 ways mushrooms can...
highly active against flu viruses. Here's the selectivity index numbers -- against pox, you saw 10s and 20s -- now against flu viruses, compared to the ribavirin controls, we have an extraordinarily high activity. And we're using a natural extract
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How synthetic biology...
and a brilliant virologist, hoping to advance science and better understand pandemics, designs a new bug. It's as contagious as chicken pox, it's as deadly as Ebola, and it incubates for months and months before causing an outbreak,
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How Solving this Medical...
indeed the cause one really important outcome of the German Revolution was the development of more vaccines many infectious diseases can be brought completely under control the had been small pox vaccines they've
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Mike Wallace remembers...
outside in the parking lot and I said look you see this I had acne and I have a certain number of pox as a result of it and I gotta tell you it's the we have the best
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Can you outsmart the...
Of course not. One fever could be caused by chicken pox, the other by influenza, or any number of other infections. Like your claim about rising global temperatures,
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Tom Rielly: A comic...
I wanted to show you the stages of smallpox. We start. This is day one. Day two. Day three, she gets a massively big pox on her shoulder. Day three.
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Why is it so hard to...
Why is it so difficult to cure cancer? We've harnessed electricity, sequenced the human genome, and eradicated small pox.
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Safari Live - Day 384 PIPE...
jogging after her he's decided the smell of her urine indicates that she is perhaps receptive to mating he has not picked up on the fact that she's leaving because she is not receptive to mating and elephants in the background a lot of you saying that I am going to get stuck well a pox on all of you and to those
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Why we need to talk...
that's the struggle, that's depression, and depression isn't chicken pox. You don't beat it once and it's gone forever. It's something you live with. It's something you live in. It's the roommate you can't kick out. It's the voice you can't ignore. It's the feelings you can't seem to escape,
Video examples
Inside the Tornado PIPE...
of debris pox where who knows what actually impacted the probe with the new data from the probe Tim made a surprising discovery the barometric pressure inside a tornado drops farther than anyone realized helping explain how tornadoes maintain their strength
Video examples
6 ways mushrooms can...
highly active against flu viruses. Here's the selectivity index numbers -- against pox, you saw 10s and 20s -- now against flu viruses, compared to the ribavirin controls, we have an extraordinarily high activity. And we're using a natural extract
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How synthetic biology...
and a brilliant virologist, hoping to advance science and better understand pandemics, designs a new bug. It's as contagious as chicken pox, it's as deadly as Ebola, and it incubates for months and months before causing an outbreak,
Video examples
How Solving this Medical...
indeed the cause one really important outcome of the German Revolution was the development of more vaccines many infectious diseases can be brought completely under control the had been small pox vaccines they've
Video examples
Mike Wallace remembers...
outside in the parking lot and I said look you see this I had acne and I have a certain number of pox as a result of it and I gotta tell you it's the we have the best
Video examples
Can you outsmart the...
Of course not. One fever could be caused by chicken pox, the other by influenza, or any number of other infections. Like your claim about rising global temperatures,
Video examples
Tom Rielly: A comic...
I wanted to show you the stages of smallpox. We start. This is day one. Day two. Day three, she gets a massively big pox on her shoulder. Day three.
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Why is it so hard to...
Why is it so difficult to cure cancer? We've harnessed electricity, sequenced the human genome, and eradicated small pox.
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Scott Gottlieb
American Public Servant
Smallpox can be personally devastating. After a 14-day incubation period, patients experience high fevers, headaches, and sometimes severe abdominal pain. A rash resembling chicken pox appears in the mouth and throat, face, and forearms, and spreads to the trunk and legs. As patients recover, scabs break and pitted scars appear.
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Steven Hatfill
American Scientist
It's true that my research expertise is in biology: for example, the Ebola virus, the Marburg virus, and monkey pox, and not bacteriology as in the case of the anthrax organism. It's also true that I have never, ever worked with anthrax in my life. It's a separate field from the research I was performing at Fort Detrick.
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Bonnie Bassler
American Scientist
Think about all kinds of infectious diseases, like mumps or measles or chicken pox. When a virgin population encountered those pathogens, it ravaged the population, and now they're childhood diseases, and eventually they won't even be that. That's our relationship with bacteria, going through time.
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Katha Pollitt
American Poet
If you have been vaccinated for polio, mumps, measles, chicken pox, hepatitis, or rabies, it may be too late for you to stand your ethical ground: You have already benefited from fetal-tissue research. This is, after all, a practice that's been legal since the 1930s.
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Sarah Snook
Australian Actress
I was the understudy to the understudy in a year-two production of 'Big Chief Red Feather.' The boy who had the lead broke his arm, and then the understudy got chicken pox. And I loved it. I got to wear the most feathers in my headdress.
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Lewis Black
American Comedian
This is how sad my life is: I got a scar from scratching my chicken pox too much. That's my big scar story. I really have no major scars.
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Victor Davis Hanson
American Historian
Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.
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Jack Johnson
American Athlete
My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.
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Scott Gottlieb
American Public Servant
Smallpox can be personally devastating. After a 14-day incubation period, patients experience high fevers, headaches, and sometimes severe abdominal pain. A rash resembling chicken pox appears in the mouth and throat, face, and forearms, and spreads to the trunk and legs. As patients recover, scabs break and pitted scars appear.
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Steven Hatfill
American Scientist
It's true that my research expertise is in biology: for example, the Ebola virus, the Marburg virus, and monkey pox, and not bacteriology as in the case of the anthrax organism. It's also true that I have never, ever worked with anthrax in my life. It's a separate field from the research I was performing at Fort Detrick.
Quote examples
Bonnie Bassler
American Scientist
Think about all kinds of infectious diseases, like mumps or measles or chicken pox. When a virgin population encountered those pathogens, it ravaged the population, and now they're childhood diseases, and eventually they won't even be that. That's our relationship with bacteria, going through time.
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Katha Pollitt
American Poet
If you have been vaccinated for polio, mumps, measles, chicken pox, hepatitis, or rabies, it may be too late for you to stand your ethical ground: You have already benefited from fetal-tissue research. This is, after all, a practice that's been legal since the 1930s.
Quote examples
Sarah Snook
Australian Actress
I was the understudy to the understudy in a year-two production of 'Big Chief Red Feather.' The boy who had the lead broke his arm, and then the understudy got chicken pox. And I loved it. I got to wear the most feathers in my headdress.
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Lewis Black
American Comedian
This is how sad my life is: I got a scar from scratching my chicken pox too much. That's my big scar story. I really have no major scars.
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Victor Davis Hanson
American Historian
Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.
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Jack Johnson
American Athlete
My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.
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