Meaning of POCK
| Pronunciation: | | pâk
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 WordNet Dictionary |
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- [n] a pustule in an eruptive disease
- [v] mark with a scar; "The skin disease scarred his face permanently"
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POCK is a 4 letter word that starts with P. |
| | Synonyms: | | mark, pit, scar |
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| | See Also: | | blemish, cicatrise, cicatrize, deface, disfigure, incise, pockmark, pustule, smallpox, variola | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Pock\, n. [OE. pokke, AS. pocc, poc; akin to D. pok, G.
pocke, and perh. to E. poke a pocket. Cf. {Pox}.] (Med.)
A pustule raised on the surface of the body in variolous and
vaccine diseases.
Of pokkes and of scab every sore. --Chaucer.
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| | Related Terms: | | abscess, alveolation, alveolus, aposteme, bed sore, birthmark, blackhead, blain, bleb, blemish, blister, boil, bubo, bulla, bump, bunion, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, chancre, chancroid, check, chilblain, cicatrix, cold sore, comedo, corn, crack, crater, craze, cyst, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, dent, depress, dilatation, dilation, dimple, dint, disfiguration, disfigurement, distension, distortion, edema, engrave, eschar, fault, feel, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, finish, fistula, flaw, freckle, furrow, furuncle, furunculus, gathering, gouge, grain, granular texture, gumboil, hemangioma, hemorrhoids, hickey, honeycomb, impress, impression, imprint, indent, indentation, indention, indenture, intumescence, keloid, kibe, kink, knub, lentigo, lesion, lump, milium, mole, nap, needle scar, nevus, notch, nub, papula, papule, paronychia, parulis, petechia, pile, piles, pimple, pit, pockmark, polyp, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, press in, print, protuberance, punch, punch in, pustule, recess, rift, rising, scab, scar, scratch, sebaceous cyst, set back, set in, shag, soft chancre, sore, split, stamp, stigma, strawberry mark, structure, sty, sunken part, suppuration, surface, surface texture, swell, swelling, swollenness, tamp, texture, track, tubercle, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumor, turgescence, turgescency, turgidity, twist, ulcer, ulceration, verruca, vesicle, wale, warp, wart, weal, weave, welt, wen, wheal, whelk, whitehead, whitlow, woof, wound |
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