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
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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