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ions 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.

A mild, eruptive disease, generally attacking children only; varicella.

, which, when communicated to the human system, as by vaccination, protects from the smallpox; vaccinia; -- called also kinepox, cowpock, and kinepock. Dunglison.

A crystalline, nitrogenous substance, closely related to xanthin and uric acid, widely distributed through the animal body, but especially in muscle tissue; -- called also sarcin, sarkin.

See Cowpox. Kin"e*scope (, 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…

A variety of the chicken pox, with acuminated vesicles containing a watery fluid; the water pox. Pepys.

A variety of chicken pox, or varicella. Dunglison.

Preventing the contagion of smallpox.

ection, or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to catch the measles or smallpox; to catch cold; the house caught fire.

The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret.

the pustules, etc., run together or unite, so as to cover the surface; as, confluent smallpox. Dunglison.

See Cowpox. Dunglison.

A redness of the skin; eruption, as in rash, measles, smallpox, scarlatina, etc.

lorescence or discoloration of the skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in measles, smallpox, scarlatina, and the like diseases; -- sometimes limited to eruptions attended with fever. Dunglison.

ned by extraction, and consisting largely of nitrogenous hydrocarbons, such as xanthin, hypoxanthin, and creatin extractives from muscle tissue.

Rubbed; marked; as, pock-fretten, marked with the smallpox. [Obs.] Wright.

An eruptive disease (Varicella globularis), allied to the chicken pox.

e sandy shores of Great Britain and Virginia; -- called also horned poppy. Gray. -- Horn pox (Med.), abortive smallpox with an eruption like that of chicken pox. -- Horn quicksilver (Min.), native calomel, or bichloride of mercury. -- Horn shell (Zoöl.), any long, sharp, spiral, gastropod shell, of the genus Cerithi…

infectious matter in the skin or flesh; as, to inoculate a person with the virus of smallpox,rabies, etc. See Vaccinate.