chickenpox

or chick·en pox

[ chik-uhn-poks ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a disease, commonly of children, caused by the varicella zoster virus and characterized by mild headache and fever, malaise, and eruption of blisters on the skin and mucous membranes.

chickenpox

/ ˈtʃɪkɪnˌpɒks /

a highly communicable viral disease most commonly affecting children, characterized by slight fever and the eruption of a rash

chickenpox

/ chĭk′ən-pŏks′ /

A highly contagious infectious disease, usually of children, caused by the varicella-zoster virus of the genus Varicellavirus. The infection is characterized by fever, and itching skin blisters that start on the trunk of the body and spread to the extremities.
Also called varicella

First recorded in 1720–30

In January, Barbara Walters, 83, suffered from a rare case of chickenpox, leaving her View perch for six weeks.

Chickenpox is almost a harmless disease, but it is more infectious than even measles.

It causes an alarm but does not prove mortal, and is probably what we term the chickenpox.

This forms one of its distinguishing features when chickenpox is compared with smallpox.

The eruption appears about the same time in smallpox and not in successive crops, as in chickenpox.

Chickenpox is more commonly a disease of childhood; smallpox attacks all ages.

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