mousepox

mousepox
mouse·pox 'mau̇s-.päks n a highly contagious disease of mice that is caused by a poxvirus of the genus Orthopoxvirus (species Ectromelia virus) called also ectromelia

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mouse·pox (mousґpoks) infectious ectromelia.

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