monkeypoxn.
/ˈmʌŋkɪpɒks/, U.S. /ˈməŋkiˌpɑks/ 1. † a. Smallpox occurring in monkeys and apes, esp. as a result of deliberate inoculation with matter from human smallpox cases during the preparation of vaccines. Obsolete.
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1902 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 25 Jan. 218/1 Monkeys suffer from ‘monkey-pox’, which they acquire by contact with smallpox, and which is somewhat like it.
1905 Weekly Irish Times 17 June 23/1 To produce this diseased matter the Local Government Board doctors use a variety of lymphs, about one dozen of which, it appears, are now in circulation, amongst them small-pox, taken from a sick patient; horse-pox, monkey-pox, cow-pox, etc.
1914 Proc. Internat. Anti-Vivisection & Animal Protection Congr. 1913 142 Matter taken from vesicles on the corpses of persons who had died from the discrete form of smallpox..was inoculated in monkeys, producing a new disease, inoculated monkey-pox.
1917 Health Culture 23 549/1 Then it changed to the horse-grease cowpox strain..down to the latter day strain of smallpox inoculation blended with monkeypox and calfpox to tame the severity of smallpox and make it less dangerous to those vaccinated.
b. A skin disease of humans characterized by the presence of pustules; spec. a form of impetigo (bacterial infection of the skin) occurring mainly in persons living in the tropics. Now disused.
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1913 Anita (Iowa) Rec. 16 Jan. Little Miss Marjorie Eneix has been the victim the past week of what is diagnosed by the local physicians as monkey-pox: a disease that is in many respects similar to varioloid.
1944 Epidemiol. Dis. Mil. Importance in Netherlands Indies (U.S. Dept. Navy) 120 Pemphigus contagiosus, also known as monkey pox and impetigo bullosa tropica, is also common especially where it is warm and humid.
1949 W. H. McDougall By Eastern Windows iv. 42 Various itches and a variety of impetigo the Dutch called monkey-pox was common.
1950 S. J. Perelman Swiss Family Perelman ii. 34 Throughout the next few weeks, until it deposited us on an alien shore to become targets for malaria, dysentery,..monkey pox,..this gleaming gray leviathan would be home.
2. A disease resembling smallpox which affects various species of rodent, monkey, and ape, originally in western and central Africa, and which is transmissible to humans.The disease was first recognized in a colony of monkeys in a laboratory in Denmark.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of monkeys > [noun]
monkeypox1902
whitepox1911
monkeypox1960
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > other eruptive diseases
gutta rosaceac1400
spotted death1623
spotted fever1623
horse-pox1656
flock-pox1672
hog pox1676
spotted pestilence1783
salt rheum1809
molluscum1813
molluscum contagiosum1817
grease-pox1822
horn-pox1822
date fever1836
glass-pock1858
molluscum sebaceum1866
verruga1873
furunculosis1886
gutta rubea1886
flannel rash1888
vaccinide1889
rubeoloid1893
pox1897
veld sores1898
spotted sickness1899
sweat-rash1899
synanthema1899
sporotrichosis1908
alastrim1911
pseudoxanthoma elasticum1933
monkeypox1960
scleromyxœdema1964
yusho1969
1960 Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 85 957 The etiological agent of monkey pox has been isolated from naturally infected animals by using both embryonated chicken eggs and tissue cultures.
1971 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 25 Aug. 5/1 Monkeypox, a disease very like smallpox, has been discovered for the first time in human beings in Africa.
2018 Guardian (Electronic ed.) 11 Sept. A second patient in England has been diagnosed with monkeypox, health officials have said, three days after the first case of the rare virus was confirmed.
Compounds
monkeypox virus n. the orthopoxvirus that causes monkeypox (sense 2).
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1959 P. von Magnus et al. in Acta Pathol. & Microbiol. Scandinavica 46 156 The isolation of a virus from the diseased animals will also be described as well as some studies on the properties of the agent which in this paper will be referred to as monkey pox virus.
1979 Jrnl. Gen. Virol. 45 537 Minor differences were found in the polypeptides of monkeypox virus strains from human and monkey outbreaks.
2020 CDC Yellow Bk. 343/2 Refugees and immigrants leaving the Democratic Republic of the Congo may be infected with monkeypox virus, but reports of this are rare.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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