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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.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of fowl pox1

First recorded in 1905–10

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