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# cowpox

«cowpox» in Mova's school dictionary: **a mild disease of cows that causes sores on their udders…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (cowpox; uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Cowpox is a mild disease of cows that causes sores on their udders and can pass to people, giving them a few small blisters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cowpox/#m1)

2) In history, catching cowpox protected people from the deadly disease smallpox, which led to the first vaccine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cowpox/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and history lessons, Edward Jenner, an English doctor, noticed that milkmaids who had caught cowpox did not get smallpox; he used material from cowpox sores to protect a boy, which began vaccination. The word «vaccine» comes from the Latin word for cow. Today smallpox has been wiped out thanks to vaccines. Phrases: «cowpox and smallpox», «Edward Jenner».

### examples

- Milkmaids who caught cowpox did not get smallpox. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cowpox/#x1)
- Edward Jenner used cowpox to make the first vaccine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cowpox/#x2)
- Cowpox gives cows sores on their udders. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cowpox/#x3)
- Cowpox is much milder than smallpox. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cowpox/#x4)
- The word «vaccine» comes from «vacca», Latin for cow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cowpox/#x5)
- Our class acted out Jenner's cowpox experiment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cowpox/#x6)

### note

Uncountable; one word. Do not confuse with chickenpox, a common children's illness that has nothing to do with chickens. Jenner's experiment would not be allowed today, because it put a child at risk without the safety rules we now use.

### In the corpora

- [Edward Jenner made the first vaccine in 1796 from cowpox, and smallpox was declared wiped out worldwide in 1980.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/258-the-microscopic-world-viruses-and-vaccines/9/)
- [In 1796 Edward Jenner protected a boy from smallpox by giving him the much milder cowpox.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/29-the-age-of-science/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cowpox» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cowpox/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.