ospa
Pronunciation: /ˈɔs.pa/
“ospa” is a Polish word. Its 8 meanings in English:
noun
- pox, varicella (disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pockmarks)
- chicken pox, varicella (highly contagious airborne disease caused by initial infection with varicella zoster virus, typically causing a skin rash that forms small itchy blisters)
- smallpox (acute, highly infectious, often fatal disease caused by Variola virus of the family Poxviridae)
- sheeppox (highly contagious disease of sheep caused by a poxvirus)
- goatpox (viral disease of goats, resembling sheeppox)
- cowpox (pustular, eruptive skin disease of cattle caused by an Orthopoxvirus, with lesions occurring principally on the udder and teats)
- horsepox (disease of horses caused by an orthopoxvirus)
- bran fodder
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *osъpa.
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