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noun

a variety of chicken pox.

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, especially of the abdomen.

Origin:
1520–30

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swinepox (ˈswaɪnˌpɒks)

—n
1.	Also called: variola porcina an acute infectious viral disease of pigs characterized by skin eruptions
2.	a form of chickenpox in which the skin eruptions are not pitted

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