Pox, as a disease, may refer to:
- Poxviruses
- Smallpox, an infectious disease unique to humans, caused by either of two virus variants, Variola major and Variola minor
- Monkeypox, an exotic infectious disease caused by the monkeypox virus
- Black pox, a symptom of smallpox that is caused by bleeding under the skin which makes the skin look charred or black. It was more common in teenagers . This symptom usually indicates that a patient with smallpox is going to die
- Canarypox, an Avipoxvirus and etiologic agent of canarypox, a disease of wild and captive birds that can enter humans but is unable to survive or multiply in human cells.
- Potyviridae, a family of plant viruses
- Plum pox, the most devastating viral disease of stone fruit from the genus Prunus
- Herpes viruses
- Chickenpox, a highly contagious illness caused by primary infection with varicella zoster virus (VZV)
- Syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease caused by the spirochetal bacteria Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum
In computing, it may refer to:
- P-O-X, a 2001 handheld electronic game
- PoxNora, a 2006 multiplayer online game that combines a collectible card game with a turn-based strategy game in a fantasy setting
- Plain Old XML, basic XML, a computer data representation format
- Orthopox 13, a character in the video game series Destroy All Humans!
In other uses, pox or POX may refer to:
- Pox (drink), a ceremonial drink common among the Maya, especially those in Chamula
- POx, premature oxidation of wine
- Partial oxidation, a chemical reaction
- The P.O.X., a German band
- Pox, small rounded pegs of candy that are attached to a strip of paper
- President's Overseas XV, a 1971 rugby union squad, chosen to celebrate the centenary of the English Rugby Football Union, the oldest national rugby organisation in existence
Famous quotes containing the word pox:
“The inconveniences and horrors of the pox are perfectly well known to every one; but still the disease flourishes and spreads. Several million people were killed in a recent war and half the world ruined; but we all busily go on in courses that make another event of the same sort inevitable. Experientia docet? Experientia doesn’t.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“A pox of this gout! or a gout of this pox! for the one or the
other plays the rogue with my great toe.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“So, when my days of impotence approach,
And I’m by pox and wine’s unlucky chance
Forced from the pleasing billows of debauch
On the dull shore of lazy temperance,
My pains at least some respite shall afford
While I behold the battles you maintain
When fleets of glasses sail about the board,
From whose broadsides volleys of wit shall rain.”
—John Wilmot, 2d Earl Of Rochester (1647–1680)