Cowpox

Definition: Cowpox

Cowpox

Noun

1. A viral disease of cattle causing a mild skin disease affecting the udder; formerly used to inoculate humans against smallpox.

Domain	Definition
Food & Agriculture	A viral infection that produces infection in cattle and that can be transmitted to humans, resulting in a typical pox lesion that evolves into a pustule with a thick crust. Source: European Union. (references)
Health	A mild, eruptive skin disease of milk cows caused by cowpox virus, with lesions occurring principally on the udder and teats. Human infection may occur while milking an infected animal. (references)
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Cowpox is a disease of the skin caused by the Vaccinia virus. The ailment manifests itself in the form of red blisters and is transmitted by touch from cows to humans. The virus that causes cowpox was used to perform the first successful vaccination against another disease. The disease vaccinated against was the deadly smallpox, which is caused by the related variola virus. Therefore the word "vaccination" has the latin root vaca meaning cow.

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In 1798 the rural English physician Edward Jenner made a curious observation. His patients who had contracted and recovered from cowpox, a disease similar to but much milder than smallpox, seemed to be immune not only to further cases of cowpox, but also to smallpox. By scratching the fluid from cowpox lesions into the skin of healthy individuals, he was able to immunize those people against smallpox.

Synonym: Cowpox

Synonym: vaccinia (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Cowpox

English words defined with "cowpox": Cowpock ♦ Edward Jenner ♦ Jenner ♦ Kinepox. (references)

Specialty definitions using "cowpox": Cowpox Virus ♦ Vaccinia Virus. (references)

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	English physician Edward Jenner was an early pioneer in the development of smallpox vaccination. In 1796 he discovered that inoculation with cowpox gave immunity to smallpox. By 1801 over 100,000 persons in England had been vaccinated. Credit: CDC.		Hand of Gloucestershire milkmaid Sarah Nelmes showing cowpox blisters from which Edward Jenner developed smallpox vaccination technique. Credit: Library of Congress.
	The cowpox tragedy - scene the last / G. Cruikshank, sculpt. Credit: Library of Congress.
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"Cowpox" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cowpox" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	10	111,207

Expression using "cowpox": Cowpox Virus. Additional references.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "cowpox"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Czech		kravské neštovice (cow-pox, vaccinia). (various references)

Danish		vaccinia (vaccinia), kokopper (cow pox, vaccina). (various references)

Dutch		vaccinia (vaccinia), koepokken (cow pox). (various references)

Farsi		ابله گاوی(طب). (various references)

Finnish		lehmärokko (cow pox), lehmänrokko (cow pox). (various references)

French		variole bovine (cow pox), variole, vaccine (cow pox). (various references)

German		Kuhpocken (cow pox). (various references)

Greek		Ιός ευλογίας αγελάδας (Cowpox virus). (various references)

Hebrew		אבעבועות �"פרות. (various references)

Hungarian		tehénhimlő. (various references)

Italian		vaiolo bovino (cow pox, vaccina). (various references)

Manx		breck ollee. (various references)

Pig Latin		owpoxcay

Portuguese		varíola bovina (cow-pox), morrinha (measles), gafeira (measles), bexigas (smallpox). (various references)

Russian		коровий оспа. (various references)

Spanish		viruela vacuna (cow pox). (various references)

Swedish		kokoppor (cow-pox). (various references)

Turkish		sığır çiçek hastalığı. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "cowpox": cowpoxes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Cowpox" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Copex. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-o-o-p-w-x"
	-2 letters: coop, poco.
	-3 letters: coo, cop, cow, cox, oxo, pow, pox, woo, wop.
	-4 letters: op, ow, ox, wo.
	Words containing the letters "c-o-o-p-w-x"
	+2 letters: cowpoxes.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
cowpox	36
cowpox vaccination	5
certificate cowpox	2
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Cowpox

Definition: Cowpox

Cowpox

Noun

Specialty Definition: Cowpox

Food & Agriculture

Health

Specialty Definition: Cowpox

Synonym: Cowpox

Crosswords: Cowpox

Photo Album: Cowpox

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Expression: Cowpox

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