MEASLES
\mˈiːsə͡lz], \mˈiːsəlz], \m_ˈiː_s_əl_z]\
Definitions of MEASLES
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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Leprosy; also, a leper.
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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.
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A disease of cattle and swine in which the flesh is filled with the embryos of different varieties of the tapeworm.
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A disease of trees.
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The larvae of any tapeworm (Taenia) in the cysticerus stage, when contained in meat. Called also bladder worms.
By Oddity Software
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Leprosy; also, a leper.
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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.
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A disease of cattle and swine in which the flesh is filled with the embryos of different varieties of the tapeworm.
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A disease of trees.
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The larvae of any tapeworm (Taenia) in the cysticerus stage, when contained in meat. Called also bladder worms.
By Noah Webster.
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A highly contagious infectious disease caused by MORBILLIVIRUS, common among children but also seen in the nonimmune of any age, in which the virus enters the respiratory tract via droplet nuclei and multiplies in the epithelial cells, spreading throughout the reticuloendothelial system. (From Dorland, 27th ed)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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An easily spread disease, especially of children, marked by fever and small red spots on the skin; a disease of swine and cattle.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. Morbilli, rubeola; an acute exanthematous disease, marked by fever and other constitutional disturbances, a catarrhal inflammation of the respiratory mucous membranes, and a generalized maculopapular eruption of a dusky red color, followed by a branny desquamation. The eruption occurs early on the buccal mucous membrane in the form of the socalled Koplik's spots, a fact utilized in the early diagnosis of the disease. The average incubation period is from 10 to 12 days. 2. A disease of swine caused by the presence of Cysticercus cellulosae, the larva of Taenia solium, the pork tapeworm. 3. Plural of measle.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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A contagious disease of the human body, indicated by a patchy crimson rash upon the skin; a disease of swine and of trees.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A disease manifested by a crimson rash on the skin, chiefly affecting children; a disease of swine or trees.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Robley Dunglison
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A contagions eruptive fever with coryza and catarrhal symptoms.
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Cysticercal disease of domestic animals.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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An acute contagious eruptive disease characterized by an incubation period of 10 to 14 days and a course of 9 to 12 days, by fever, by catarrh of the conjunctiva and air passages, and by an eruption of slightly elevated dots of about the size of millet seeds, nearly impalpable, without hardness, and either isolated or forming crescentic patches.
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A vesiculopustular parasitic disease of swine, due to the invasion of Cysticercus cellulosae, with the formation of tumors in the subcutaneous tissue and muscles of the trunk and limbs. It may also occur in man. [Dut.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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