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Definition of Pockmark
1. Verb. Mark with or as if with pockmarks. "Her face was pockmarked by the disease"
2. Noun. A scar or pit on the skin that is left by a pustule of smallpox or acne or other eruptive disease.
Definition of Pockmark
1. n. A mark or pit made by smallpox.
Definition of Pockmark
1. Noun. A mark or scar in the skin caused by a pock. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pockmark
1. to mark with scars caused by an eruptive disease [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Pockmark
1. The small depressed scar left after the healing of the smallpox pustule. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pockmark
Literary usage of Pockmark
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fluid Flow Through Faults and Fractures in Argillaceous Formations by Nuclear Energy Agency (1998)
"The pockmark measured 700 mx 450 m and produced 3000 L.hr1 of methane (at
atmospheric pressure). High resolution seismic profiling suggests that this single ..."
2. A Text-book of the Practice of Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1907)
"... when the scab falls off it leaves under its former site a red or pink depression
in the skin, the future pockmark. This stage of desiccation or drying, ..."
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