Definition of Measles

Measles

Leprosy; also, a leper.

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.

A disease of cattle and swine in which the flesh is filled with the embryos of different varieties of the tapeworm.

A disease of trees.

The larvae of any tapeworm (Taenia) in the cysticerus stage, when contained in meat. Called also bladder worms.

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Measles Quotations

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Albert Einstein

Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.
Jerome K. Jerome

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
Lord Byron

Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.
Melinda Gates

Golf, like measles, should be caught young.
P. G. Wodehouse

Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans could acquire such diseases.
Jared Diamond

Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population.
Jared Diamond

Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.
Douglas William Jerrold

Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles.
William Lilly

Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late in life.
Douglas Jerrold

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Measles Translations

measles in Dutch is mazelen
measles in French is rougeole
measles in German is Masern
measles in Italian is morbillo
measles in Portuguese is sarampo

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