swinepox

Definitions


[], (Noun)

Definitions:
- A disease affecting the skin of pigs; specifically the usually mild disease caused by a poxvirus (genus Suipoxvirus), characterized by an eruption of papules, vesicles, and pustules, and typically transmitted by the louse Haematopinus suis.


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Origin:
early 16th century (in an earlier sense). In some forms from swine + the plural of pock




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