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water pox en · NOUN

Etymology

Compound of water + pox. Attested from the nineteenth century.

Meanings

  1. (dated, uncountable) A common childhood disease caused by virus; chickenpox, varicella.
    • Varicella (water-pox, stone-pox, wind-pox,) is said to be often epidemic at the period of the public vaccinations... 1839, “Heim on small-pox and vaccination in the Kingdom of Wirtemberg”, in British and Foreign Medical Review, volume 7:
    • Water pox. Varicella. 1801, Philipp Andreas Nemnich, Lexicon Nosologicum Polygloton:

Translations (14)

sv vattkoppor (A common childhood disease caused by virus) · sh vodene kozice (A common childhood disease caused by virus) · nb vannkopper (A common childhood disease caused by virus) · de Windpocken (A common childhood disease caused by virus) · lb Waasserpouken (A common childhood disease caused by virus) · nn vasskoppar (A common childhood disease caused by virus) · da vandkopper (A common childhood disease caused by virus) · ja 水疱瘡 (A common childhood disease caused by virus) · ja 水痘 (A common childhood disease caused by virus) · az suçiçəyi (A common childhood disease caused by virus) · nl waterpokken (A common childhood disease caused by virus) · de Wasserpocken (A common childhood disease caused by virus) · zh 水痘 (A common childhood disease caused by virus) · af waterpokkies (A common childhood disease caused by virus)