1. A contagious disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pock marks
   "Smallpox was once a feared pox disease before its eradication"
    
2. (medicine) a sexually transmitted disease caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum
   "pox is known as 'the great imitator' due to its varied symptoms";
   - syphilis, syph [informal], lues venerea, lues

Sounds like: poultry, py, pox

Derived forms: poxes

Type of: contagion, contagious disease, Cupid's disease [archaic], Cupid's itch [archaic], dose [informal], sexually transmitted disease, social disease, STD, VD, venereal disease, venereal infection, Venus's curse

Encyclopedia: Pox