MEASLES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does measles mean? 

• MEASLES (noun)
  The noun MEASLES has 1 sense:

1. an acute and highly contagious viral disease marked by distinct red spots followed by a rash; occurs primarily in children

  Familiarity information: MEASLES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEASLES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An acute and highly contagious viral disease marked by distinct red spots followed by a rash; occurs primarily in children

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

measles; morbilli; rubeola

Hypernyms ("measles" is a kind of...):

contagion; contagious disease (any disease easily transmitted by contact)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "measles"):

epidemic roseola; German measles; rubella; three-day measles (a contagious viral disease that is a milder form of measles lasting three or four days; can be damaging to a fetus during the first trimester)

 Context examples 

For example, children don't receive measles vaccine until they are at least one year old.

(Childhood Immunization, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

To date, 53 measles related deaths have been recorded.

(Samoan government temporarily shuts down for nationwide measles vaccination drive, Wikinews)

Do not you remember what Mr. Perry said, so many years ago, when I had the measles?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It seems but yesterday that I had the honour of attending you in the measles.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Measles virus has been shown to be present in some non-small cell lung cancers.

(Live Attenuated Measles Virus Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

Measles (rubeola) virus, mumps virus, and Newcastle disease virus are paramyxoviruses.

(Paramyxovirus, NCI Dictionary)

What happens when the urgency to contain and stop the impact of COVID-19, or for that matter cholera, polio, measles and Ebola, reaches populations unable to respond?

(Slightly dirty water ‘still ok’ against coronavirus, SciDev.Net)

An attenuated oncolytic Edmonston (Ed) strain of measles virus (MV) encoding the soluble extracellular N-terminal domain of human carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) (MV-CEA) with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Carcinoembryonic Antigen-Expressing Measles Virus, NCI Thesaurus)

An attenuated oncolytic Edmonston (Ed) strain of measles virus encoding the human thyroidal sodium iodide symporter (MV-NIS) with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Oncolytic Measles Virus Encoding Thyroidal Sodium Iodide Symporter, NCI Thesaurus)

An abstruse and learned specialist who finds that he has been called in for a case of measles would experience something of the annoyance which I read in my friend’s eyes.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)