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Measles

Measles Meaning & Definition
Measles Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Measles?

[n] an acute and highly contagious viral disease marked by distinct red spots followed by a rash; occurs primarily in children

Synonyms | Synonyms for Measles: morbilli | rubeola

Related Terms | Find terms related to Measles: acute articular rheumatism | African lethargy | ague | alkali disease | amebiasis | amebic dysentery | anthrax | Asiatic cholera | bacillary dysentery | bastard measles | black death | black fever | blackwater fever | breakbone fever | brucellosis | bubonic plague | cachectic fever | cerebral rheumatism | Chagres fever | chicken pox | cholera | cowpox | dandy fever | deer fly fever | dengue | dengue fever | diphtheria | dumdum fever | dysentery | elephantiasis | encephalitis lethargica | enteric fever | erysipelas | famine fever | five-day fever | flu | frambesia | German measles | glandular fever | grippe | hansenosis | Haverhill fever | hepatitis | herpes | herpes simplex | herpes zoster | histoplasmosis | hookworm | hydrophobia | infantile paralysis | infectious mononucleosis | inflammatory rheumatism | influenza | jail fever | jungle rot | kala azar | kissing disease | lepra | leprosy | leptospirosis | loa loa | loaiasis | lockjaw | madness | malaria | malarial fever | marsh fever | meningitis | milzbrand | mumps | ornithosis | osteomyelitis | paratyphoid fever | parotitis | parrot fever | pertussis | pneumonia | polio | poliomyelitis | polyarthritis rheumatism | ponos | psittacosis | rabbit fever | rabies | rat-bite fever | relapsing fever | rheumatic fever | rickettsialpox | ringworm | scarlatina | scarlet fever | schistosomiasis | septic sore throat | shingles | sleeping sickness | sleepy sickness | smallpox | snail fever | splenic fever | spotted fever | strep throat | swamp fever | tetanus | thrush | tinea | trench fever | trench mouth | tuberculosis | tularemia | typhoid | typhoid fever | typhus | typhus fever | undulant fever | vaccinia | varicella | variola | venereal disease | viral dysentery | whooping cough | yaws | yellow fever | yellow jack | zona | zoster

See Also | contagion | contagious disease | epidemic roseola | German measles | rubella | three-day measles

Measles In Webster's Dictionary

\Mea"sles\, n. [From lst {Measle}.] Leprosy; also, a leper. [Obs.]
\Mea"sles\, n.; pl. in form, but used as singular in senses 1, 2, & 3. [D. mazelen; akin to G. masern, pl., and E. mazer, and orig. meaning, little spots. See {Mazer}.] 1. (Med.) A contagious febrile disorder commencing with catarrhal symptoms, and marked by the appearance on the third day of an eruption of distinct red circular spots, which coalesce in a crescentic form, are slightly raised above the surface, and after the fourth day of the eruption gradually decline; rubeola. Measles commences with the ordinary symptoms of fever. --Am. Cyc. 2. (Veter. Med.) A disease of cattle and swine in which the flesh is filled with the embryos of different varieties of the tapeworm. 3. A disease of trees. [Obs.] 4. pl. (Zo["o]l.) The larv[ae] of any tapeworm ({T[ae]nia}) in the cysticerus stage, when contained in meat. Called also {bladder worms}.

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