What is another word for chickenpox?

Pronunciation: [t͡ʃˈɪkɪnpˌɒks] (IPA)

Chickenpox is a highly contagious viral disease that commonly affects children. Also referred to as varicella, chickenpox causes a red, itchy rash on the body, accompanied by fever and flu-like symptoms. There are several synonyms for chickenpox, including varicella, waterpox, and red blister. Other less common synonyms include human herpes virus 3, poxviridae, and catharine disease. Although chickenpox is typically a mild illness, it can lead to serious complications in certain individuals, such as pregnant women and those with weakened immune systems. Vaccination is the most effective way to prevent chickenpox.

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What are the hyponyms for Chickenpox?

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Usage examples for Chickenpox

There was Freddy's cough to be inquired after, and grandfather's rheumatism, and the baby's chickenpox.
"A Peep Behind the Scenes"
Mrs. O. F. Walton
If she should do anything so domestic, half Winsted would break out with mumps or chickenpox.
"The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted"
Katharine Ellis Barrett
chickenpox is an evil; but if I were to declare that we must either submit to it or else repress it sternly by seizing everyone who suffers from it and punishing them by inoculation with smallpox, I should be laughed at; for though nobody could deny that the result would be to prevent chickenpox to some extent by making people avoid it much more carefully, and to effect a further apparent prevention by making them conceal it very anxiously, yet people would have sense enough to see that the deliberate propagation of smallpox was a creation of evil, and must therefore be ruled out in favor of purely humane and hygienic measures.
"Bernard Shaw's Preface to Major Barbara"
George Bernard Shaw

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