English

Noun

water pox ‎(uncountable)

1. (medicine, dated) A common childhood disease caused by virus; chickenpox, varicella.
   • 1801, Philipp Andreas Nemnich, Lexicon Nosologicum Polygloton

     Water pox. Varicella.

   • 1839, "Heim on small-pox and vaccination in the Kingdom of Wirtemberg", British and Foreign Medical Review volume 7

     Varicella (water-pox, stone-pox, wind-pox,) is said to be often epidemic at the period of the public vaccinations...

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water pox in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913