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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cowpox \Cow"pox`\ (-p[o^]ks`), n. (Med.)
A pustular eruptive disease of the cow, which when
communicated to the human system, as by vaccination, protects
from the smallpox; vaccinia; -- called also {kinepox},
{cowpock}, and {kinepock}. --Dunglison.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
cowpox
n : a viral disease of cattle causing a mild skin disease
affecting the udder; used to innoculate humans against
smallpox [syn: {vaccinia}]
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