white pox

Questions about white pox

What does white pox mean?

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

What is another word for white pox?

Close synonyms include alastrim, variola minor, pseudosmallpox, pseudovariola, milk 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 white pox a common word?

white 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.