milk pox

Questions about milk pox

What does milk pox mean?

milk pox means "a mild form of smallpox caused by a less virulent form of the virus".

What is another word for milk pox?

Close synonyms include alastrim, variola minor, pseudosmallpox, pseudovariola, white pox. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is milk pox a common word?

milk pox is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.