water pox

See also: waterpox

English

Etymology

Compound of water +‎ pox. Attested from the nineteenth century.

Noun

water pox (uncountable)

  1. (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

References

“water pox”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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