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Pit :: Pit (v. t.) To mark with little hollows, as by various pustules; as, a face pitted by smallpox..

Water Pox :: Water pox () A variety of chicken pox, or varicella..

Pockmark :: Pockmark (n.) A mark or pit made by smallpox.

Variola :: Variola (n.) The smallpox.

Pox :: Pox (v. t.) To infect with the pox, or syphilis..

Vaccination :: Vaccination (n.) The act, art, or practice of vaccinating, or inoculating with the cowpox, in order to prevent or mitigate an attack of smallpox. Cf. Inoculation..

Pox :: Pox (n.) 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..

Varicella :: Varicella (n.) Chicken pox.

Confluent :: Confluent (a.) Characterized by having the pustules, etc., run together or unite, so as to cover the surface; as, confluent smallpox..

Smallpox :: Smallpox (n.) A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick crusts which slough after a certain time, often leaving a pit, or scar..

Vaccinate :: Vaccinate (v. t.) To inoculate with the cowpox by means of a virus, called vaccine, taken either directly or indirectly from cows..

Cowpox :: 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..

Pockmarked :: Pockmarked (a.) Marked by smallpox; pitted.

Swineery :: Swine-pox (n.) A variety of the chicken pox, with acuminated vesicles containing a watery fluid; the water pox..

Catch :: Catch (v. t.) To take or receive; esp. to take by sympathy, contagion, infection, or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to catch the measles or smallpox; to catch cold; the house caught fire..

Pocky :: Pocky (superl.) Full of pocks; affected with smallpox or other eruptive disease.

Extractive :: Extractive (n.) Any one of a large class of substances obtained by extraction, and consisting largely of nitrogenous hydrocarbons, such as xanthin, hypoxanthin, and creatin extractives from muscle tissue..

Kinepox :: Kinepox (n.) See Kinetoscope.

Poxed :: Poxed (imp. & p. p.) of Po.

Pit :: Pit (n.) The indentation or mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox..

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