Definitions for: Measles

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

Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: morbilli, rubeola

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

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