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English
Etymology
Compound of water + pox. Attested from the nineteenth century.
Noun
water pox (uncountable)
- (medicine, dated) A common childhood disease caused by virus; chickenpox, varicella.
1801, Philipp Andreas Nemnich, Lexicon Nosologicum Polygloton:Water pox. Varicella.
1839, “Heim on small-pox and vaccination in the Kingdom of Wirtemberg”, in British and Foreign Medical Review, volume 7:Varicella (water-pox, stone-pox, wind-pox,) is said to be often epidemic at the period of the public vaccinations...
Translations
A common childhood disease caused by virus
References
“water pox”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.