fowl pox
- 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.
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Origin of fowl pox
First recorded in 1905–10
Also called avian diphtheria, avian pox.
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