chicken pox

1. A mild but highly contagious disease , caused by a virus and characterized by slight fever and the eruption of blisters on the skin . Chicken pox is classified as a disease of childhood, although it can occur in adults.

Notes

Children who have had chicken pox are immune to future infection by the virus that causes it.

Example Sentences

In contrast, the actual chicken pox virus long ago exited my bloodstream and is not detectable.

From The Daily Beast

For example, though I had chicken pox decades ago, I still have antibody to chicken pox.

From The Daily Beast

This can look for all the world like primary kid-based chicken pox.

From The Daily Beast

Though chicken pox kills few people, adults generally are the ones it does kill, usually in the form of a viral pneumonia.

From The Daily Beast

And chicken pox, let the record show, is not a great disease in adults.

From The Daily Beast

They took it like scarlet fever or chicken-pox, and feel all the more secure now for having had it.

From Project Gutenberg

It was like toothache or mumps or chicken-pox, an ignoble, complaint of which one is ashamed, but before which one is helpless.

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I understand nobody who had been vaccinated got any of the chicken-pox, as you call it.

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Chicken pox, too, differs essentially from smallpox in the course of its development.

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An eruption of chicken pox does not burst out all over the body at once, but appears in successive rashes.

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