whitepoxn.
/ˈwʌɪtpɒks/, U.S. /ˈ(h)waɪtˌpɑks/ 1.
a. A mild form of smallpox; = variola minor n. at variola n. Compounds 3. Now rare.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of monkeys > [noun]
monkeypox1902
whitepox1911
monkeypox1960
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > smallpox
pock1296
variole?a1425
pox1476
small-pockc1510
smallpox?1562
variola1593
little pox?a1649
variolous1676
discrete smallpox1684
varioloid1820
varicelloid1873
variola major1902
whitepox1911
variola minor1925
1911 Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 16 Mar. 400/1 The white pox resembles smallpox in its onset and until the full development of the eruption.
1924 Lancet 20 Dec. 1318/1 It [sc. alastrim] has also been given the name milk-pox and white-pox on account of the white and milky appearance of the contents of the vesicles at a certain stage in their development.
1962 T. de Aragon tr. X. Abril in Odyssey Rev. Mar. 177 It is about to end, Tomorrow, in an archetypal phallic boast, In diabetes or white pox, In geometric face, in a corpse.
2012 J. J. Berman Taxon. Guide Infectious Dis. xxxix. 226 This disease [sc. variola minor] is known by various names including alastrim, cottonpox, milkpox, whitepox, and Cuban itch.
b. More fully whitepox virus. A virus isolated from monkey tissue, originally believed to be a new orthopoxvirus but later recognized to be smallpox virus present as a laboratory contaminant. Now historical.
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the world > life > biology > organism > micro-organism > virus > [noun] > types of
latent virus1750
influenza virus1880
poxvirus1891
filter-passer1906
mosaic virus1914
bacteriophage1921
herpes virus1925
Rous sarcoma virus1925
Rous virus1925
papillomavirus1935
poliovirus1939
Semliki Forest virus1944
actinophage1947
mycophage1947
mengovirus1949
tumour virus1950
Zika1952
mycobacteriophage1953
Sindbis virus1953
myxovirus1954
echovirus1955
RNA virus1955
adenovirus1956
SV1956
arborvirus1957
enterovirus1957
foamy virus1957
respiratory syncytial virus1957
polyoma1958
parainfluenza1959
reovirus1959
arbovirus1960
cytomegalovirus1960
TMV1960
vacuolating agent or virus1960
Coxsackie virus1961
rhinovirus1961
RSV1961
papovavirus1962
paramyxovirus1962
picornavirus1962
mycophage1963
parvovirus1965
rhabdovirus1966
Ross River virus1966
coronavirus1968
EBV1968
Epstein–Barr virus1968
leukovirus1968
CMV1969
arenovirus1970
oncornavirus1970
togavirus1970
alphavirus1971
calicivirus1971
Dane particle1971
flavivirus1971
flavovirus1971
maedi1971
orbivirus1971
mycovirus1972
visna-maedi virus1972
flu virus1973
maedi-visna virus1973
corona1974
orthopoxvirus1974
rotavirus1974
whitepox1974
retravirus1975
Ebola virus1976
morbillivirus1976
retrovirus1976
Ebola1977
lentivirus1979
reassortant1979
HTLV1980
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1972 R. Gispen & B. Brand-Saathof in Bull. World Health Organization 46 591/1 The occurrence of wild white poxvirus in healthy monkeys cannot be explained by the instability noted above.]
1974 Lancet 23 Feb. 296/1 Examination of specimens from monkeys in Zaïre revealed two ‘whitepox’ viruses.
1985 Virology 143 242/1 DNA mapping..has indicated that contamination was the origin of reported variola-like mutants of monkeypox virus suggested as a possible source of ‘whitepox’ viruses.
1997 P. Cornwell Unnatural Exposure xii. 279 It [sc. PCR] verified a pox... It's very odd, nothing currently known, not monkeypox, whitepox.
2000 FEMS Microbiol. Rev. 24 128/2 If they had isolated variola virus from their laboratory stocks of monkeypox virus, was it not likely that the ‘whitepox’ viruses were also laboratory contaminants?
2. More fully white pox disease. A disease of elkhorn coral characterized by stunted growth and death of polyps in localized areas (exposing the white limestone skeleton of the colony), occurring in waters polluted by sewage and caused by infection with the bacterium Serratia marcescens.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of animals generally > [noun] > other disorders
bunnyc1440
cold1486
big-head1805
dwarfism1833
milk fever1860
fagopyrism1895
hyperdactyly1902
myelocytoma1929
osteofibrosis1936
mousepox1947
osteolathyrism1957
whitepox1996
1996 Science 20 Dec. 2017/1 A host of new diseases has been killing coral off the Florida Keys... The latest is ‘white pox’.
2002 Atlanta Jrnl.-Constit. (Nexis) 18 June 3 a An epidemic of ‘white pox’..has decimated the once-plentiful elkhorn coral in the Caribbean Sea.
2009 C. R. C. Sheppard et al. Biol. Coral Reefs viii. 235 Some pathogens have clear associations with..human sewage, as in the case of the bacterium Serratia marcescens, to which is attributed ‘White Pox Disease’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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