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Meaning
Noun
●
In Medicine:
An
acute
and
highly
contagious
disease
which often
afflicts
children
caused
by the
virus
Measles
morbillivirus
and
causing
red
rashes
,
fever
,
runny nose
,
coughing
, and
red
eyes.
●
In Medicine:
Any
disease
causing
red
rashes.
●
Used as an intensifier.
●
In Veterinary medicine:
Synonym of
cysticercosis
: A
disease
of
livestock
or
meat
caused
by the
presence
of
tapeworm
larvae.
●
In Botany:
Any
disease
causing
a tree's
bark
to become
rough
and irregular.
●
In Medicine:
plural of
measle
: a
red
spot
forming
part of a
rash
, (now)
particularly
those
caused
by M.
m
orbillivirus.
●
In Printing:
plural of
measle
: any similar-looking
red
spot
,
particularly
(printing) foxing.
●
In Veterinary medicine:
plural of
measle
: the individual
cysts
of cysticercosis.
●
In Botany:
plural of
measle
: the individual
blisters
in the
surface
of a
diseased
tree's bark.
●
In American English & Espionage:
A
discreet
assassination
made to
look like
death
from any natural cause.
●
plural of measle
●
Alternative form of
mesels
: Leprosy.
Verb
●
third-person singular
simple
present indicative
of measle
Sourced from
Wiktionary
Synonyms
Cysticercosis
Morbilli
Rubeola
Measlings
Measle
The Dickens
The Measles
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