Definition of Horsepox

1. a skin disease of horses [n -ES]

Medical Definition of Horsepox

1. A disease, now rare, that usually appears as typical eruptions, first papular, then vesicular, in the mouth or on the lips and buccal mucosa, sometimes on the skin of the fetlocks; caused by the horsepox virus, a member of the family Poxviridae. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Horsepox

horsemints
horsenail
horsenails
horseness
horseplay
horseplayed
horseplayer
horseplayers
horseplaying
horseplays
horsepond
horseponds
horsepower
horsepower-hour
horsepowers
horsepox (current term)
horsepox virus
horsepoxes
horserace
horseraces
horseracing
horseradish
horseradish peroxidase
horseradish root
horseradish sauce
horseradishes
horseradishlike
horserake
horserakes
horserider

Literary usage of Horsepox

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Acute Contagious Diseases by William Miller Welch, Jay Frank Schamberg (1905)
"The horsepox has been artificially produced in the horse and other animals ... In horsepox produced by inoculation, the eruption, almost without exception ..."

2. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by United States Bureau of Animal Industry, Leonard Pearson (1916)
"horsepox is also frequently mistaken for the exanthemata attending some forms ... Cattle and men, if inoculated from a case of horsepox, develop vaccinia, ..."

3. Manual of bacteriology by Robert Muir, James Ritchie (1913)
"In the horse there occurs a disease known as horsepox, ... This disease was thus identical with horsepox in epidemics of which it had its origin. ..."

4. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"... or horsepox is used for the inoculation. If an inoculation "takes," in man, ... and (4) equine lymph, from local horsepox. Just what happens when human ..."

5. Text Book of Veterinary Medicine by James Law (1906)
"horsepox : Early history, means of infection. Symptoms : Vesicles on lips, on heels, concretions, treatment. ... horsepox. Causes. Relation to smallpox. ..."

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