Measles /(?)/

Mea·sles

Measles

A contagious viral 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. It is a common childhood disease. (Med.)
Measles commences with the ordinary symptoms of fever.
— Am. Cyc.
A disease of cattle and swine in which the flesh is filled with the embryos of different varieties of the tapeworm. (Veter. Med.)
A disease of trees. [Obs.]
The larvae of any tapeworm (Taenia) in the cysticerus stage, when contained in meat. Called also bladder worms. (Zool.)

German measles: A mild contagious viral disease, which may cause birth defects if contracted by a pregnant woman during early pregnancy; also called rubella.