measles
measles
Definition
mea·sles (mē′zəlz)
noun
- an acute, infectious, communicable disease caused by a paramyxovirus and characterized by small, red spots on the skin, high fever, nasal discharge, etc. and occurring most frequently in childhood; rubeola
- any of various similar but milder diseases; esp., rubella (German measles)
- a disease of cattle and hogs, caused by tapeworm larvae in the flesh
Etymology: ME maseles, pl. of masel, measle, spot (? infl. by mesel, leper < OFr < L misellus, wretch < miser, wretched), akin to OHG māsa, a spot, Ger masern, measles
tapeworm larvae
measles
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- catch: However, you can catch measles at any age.
- contract: However, Mr Sharp is unsympathetic, blaming the Briggs children for his son contracting German measles.
- get: You can have a vaccination to stop you getting measles.
- have: Dr. Waring said the child had measles which was the main factor in the case.
- develop: For example, unvaccinated children risk neurological problems if they develop measles or whooping cough.
- prevent: Can you prevent measles: Measles can be prevented by a highly effective vaccine.
Noun used with modifier
- antigen: One common local cause of confusion is the use of the single antigen measles vaccine in France.
Adjective modifier
- german: Q - I became partially deaf as a result of the german measles at the age of eleven.
- German: Children with German measles should be kept away from pregnant women.
- combined: It organized trials of poliovirus and measle vaccines and more recently the very successful combined measles, mumps and rubella ( MMR ) vaccine.
- e.g.: Treating childhood illnesses with homeopathy ( e.g. measles, mumps, chickenpox, impetigo, molluscum and whooping cough ).
- single: There is no source of single licensed measles or mumps vaccines in this country.
- acute: No child has died of acute measles in the UK for more than a decade.
Modifies a noun
- mumps: MMR protects your child and your family against measles mumps and rubella.
- vaccine: Some European countries make use of single measles vaccine in addition to MMR.
- epidemic: In the last measles epidemic in the United States in 1991, there were 55,000 cases.
- virus: The group reported finding measles virus in samples of bowel disease tissue.
- vaccination: The country is France which gives a single measles vaccination only in the event of a serious measles crisis.
- outbreak: The West coast of Scotland has already had a measles outbreak with 5000 cases of which 130 were admitted to a fever unit.
Preposition: in
- child: When possible we used gamma globulin to abort measles in pre-school children.
measles Quotes
Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.
Love iz like the meazles; we kant have it bad but onst, and the latter in life we hav it the tuffer it goes with us.
Love'slikethemeaslesöalltheworsewhenitcomeslate in life.
Browse dictionary entries near measles
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