cowpox
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cowpox (usually uncountable, plural cowpoxes)
- A pustular, eruptive skin disease of cattle caused by an Orthopoxvirus, with lesions occurring principally on the udder and teats. Human infection may occur from touching cows, and gives immunity to smallpox.
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- kine-pox (archaic)
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a skin disease
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