Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
horse·pox Pronunciation:
-"päks Function:
noun : a usually benign virus disease of horses that occurs only in Europe, that is markedby a vesiculopustular eruption of the skin especially on the pasterns and sometimes by a papulovesicular inflammation of the buccal mucosa, and that is caused by a poxvirus identical or closely relatedto the cowpox virus
[hawrs-poks] 
