Chickenpox Definition

chikənpäks
noun
An acute, contagious viral disease, usually of young children, characterized by fever and eruptions; varicella.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
chickenpox
Plural:
chickenpoxes

Origin of Chickenpox

  • Perhaps in allusion to the mildness of the disease as contrasted with smallpox

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • chicken +‎ pox

    From Wiktionary

Chickenpox Sentence Examples

  • Fluid from shingles blisters can cause chickenpox in people who are not already immune.

  • Most of us have had chickenpox, most of us have had herpes simplex 1 or 2 or both.

  • Patients with widespread eczema can also develop severe chickenpox.

  • However, as of 2004, it is too early to determine whether vaccinated children are more or less likely to develop shingles in adulthood as compared with adults who were naturally infected with chickenpox as children.

  • Study results reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicate that more than 90 percent of American adults are immune to the chickenpox virus.

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