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cowpox

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cow=pox

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun cowpox has 1 sense

cowpox(n = noun.state) vaccinia - a viral disease of cattle causing a mild skin disease affecting the udder; formerly used to inoculate humans against smallpox; Array

is a kind of pox, animal disease

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CIDE DICTIONARY

cowpox, n.

A pustular eruptive disease of the cow, which, when communicated to the human system, as by vaccination, protects from the smallpox; vaccinia; -- called also kinepox, cowpock, and kinepock. Dunglison. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

cowpox, n. a disease of cows, of which the virus was formerly used in vaccination against smallpox.

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