Veterinary Pathology. a mild pox disease of swine, caused by a virus related to that of cowpox, characterized by the appearance of pustules in the skin, esp. of the abdomen.
Main Entry: swine pox Function: noun : a mild virus disease of young pigs that is marked by fever, loss of appetite, relative indifference to normal stimuli, and skinlesions suggestive of those of smallpox and that is now caused only by a poxvirus (genus Suipoxvirus) transmitted by the hog louse but historically is thought in some cases to have beenassociated with or caused by the vaccinia poxvirus
[swahyn-poks] 
