fowl pox

noun

Veterinary Pathology.

1. a virus disease of chickens and other birds characterized by warty excrescences on the comb and wattles, and often by diphtherialike changes in the mucous membranes of the head.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fowl pox¹

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

In the early fifties, scientists were just beginning to understand viruses, so as Henrietta’s cells arrived in labs around the country, researchers began exposing them to viruses of all kinds —herpes, measles, mumps, fowl pox, equine encephalitis —to study how each one entered cells, reproduced, and spread.

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