Meaning of MEASLES
| Pronunciation: | | 'meezulz
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| | Definition: | | [n] an acute and highly contagious viral disease marked by distinct red spots followed by a rash; occurs primarily in children |
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| | Synonyms: | | morbilli, rubeola |
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| | See Also: | | contagion, contagious disease, epidemic roseola, German measles, rubella, three-day measles | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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| Dream Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Dreaming that you have measles means much worry and anxiety in your life that will interfere with your job or schooling.
Seeing others with measles in your dream indicates that the troubling situation and condition of others will give you much worry. |
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| Biology Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | A highly contagious infection of the respiratory tract caused by a virus and most commonly found in children. Symptoms begin with a high fever, hacking cough, runny nose, red and light-sensitive eyes, and irritability, and are then followed by a red to brown, blotchy rash which spreads from the head down. Coughing often continues throughout the rash period. The rash disappears in the same order as it appeared -- from the head down. For more information, visit Childhood Infections: Measles. |
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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