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fowl pox

American  

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.

Etymology

Origin of fowl pox

First recorded in 1905–10

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