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mousepox

noun mouse·pox \ˈmas-ˌpäks\

Medical Definition of MOUSEPOX

:  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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