Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chicken pox \Chick"en pox"\ (Med.) A mild, eruptive disease, generally attacking children only; varicella.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
alt. (context pathology English) A common childhood disease caused by the (vern: varicella-zoster virus) (VZV), (taxlink Human herpesvirus 3 species noshow=1) ((vern: HHV-3)). n. (context pathology English) A common childhood disease caused by the (vern: varicella-zoster virus) (VZV), (taxlink Human herpesvirus 3 species noshow=1) ((vern: HHV-3)).
Usage examples of "chicken pox".
She thought of Harry, sick with the chicken pox, and felt a flash of guilt, but he had his mama and Peg.
And I can't go visit her because Squirt hasn't had the chicken pox yet and Mama doesn't want him to get them when he's so young.
But having the chicken pox did not make me a worthier or better person, as some people seem to suppose is the case with victims of slavery.
One morning, babysitting for a little girl who had caught the chicken pox, sitting by her as she lay thoughtlessly in a lukewarm oatmeal bath, stoically flicking the water with her finger and occasionally moaning like a small animal, he felt a sudden gust of happiness sweep through him, simply because he was the old widower of the neighbourhood, and people used him as a babysitter.
You won't remember but years ago in Bermuda- I got up from bed whe - d chicken pox and came along to see you and you gave me q autograph and it's one of the proudest days of my life which I have never forgotten.
A casual observer would have put it down to chicken pox, and none was more surprised than the patients themselves when they had been detained.
After what he'd seen on the post-Event mainland with influenza, mumps, and chicken pox, he believed every word of it.