1) Animal disease 2) Infectious disease 3) Vaccinia
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1) Vaccinia
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The term cowpox refers to both the skin disease and the virus that causes it. The virus, part of the orthopoxvirus family, is so closely related to the vaccinia virus that the two are often spoken of interchangeably. The virus is zoonotic, meaning that it is transferable between species, such as from animal to human. The transferral of the disease...
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• (n.) A pustular eruptive disease of the cow, which, when communicated to the human system, as by vaccination, protects from the smallpox; vaccinia; -- called also kinepox, cowpock, and kinepock.
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mildly eruptive disease of cows that when transmitted to otherwise healthy humans produces immunity to smallpox. The cowpox virus is closely related ... [3 related articles]
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A mild, eruptive skin disease of milk cows caused by cowpox virus, with lesions occurring principally on the udder and teats. Human infection may occur while milking an infected animal. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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(kou´poks) a mild pustular eruption affecting milk cows, usually confined to the udder and teats, caused by the cowpox virus, and transmissible to humans. In the 18th century, Edward Jenner discovered that cowpox could be transmitted to humans who milked or tended cattle, and that persons who contracted it in this way s...
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Cow'pox` (-pŏks`)
noun (Medicine) A pustular eruptive disease of the cow, which, when communicated to the human system, as by vaccination, protects from the smallpox; vaccinia; -- called also
kinepox ,
cowpock , and
kinepock .
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Cowpox: A mild skin disease of milk cows, principally confined to the udder and teats, that may be contracted by people from milking an infected cow. People develop vesicles (blebs) which break and form ulcers on the fingers (sometimes called 'milkers nodules'). These usually heal without scarring. Cowpox protects against smallpox and was used by E...
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Cowpox is a contagious viral disease of cows characterised by vesicles on the skin, particularly on the teats and udder. Edward Jenner popularised the incorrect notion that persons who had contracted cowpox were immune from contracting smallpox (based on a solitary example of a boy whom, having been deliberately infected with cowpox was later injec...
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n] - a viral disease of cattle causing a mild skin disease affecting the udder
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vaccinia noun a viral disease of cattle causing a mild skin disease affecting the udder; formerly used to inoculate humans against smallpox
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an eruptive disease appearing on the teats and udders of cows, in which small pustules form that contain a virus used in the vaccination of humans against smallpox.
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