Word Meaning

Meaning of measles

- A leper.
- A tapeworm larva. See 2d Measles, 4.
- 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.

Crossword clue for measles

- Childhood illness
- Contagion hot spots?
- Contagious disease
- Highly contagious viral infection
- Last pair of witches behind mysterious Salem sickness
- Rubella or German ...
- Seems LA is decimated by contagious disease
- Spots signs of disease
- Spotty disease
- Viral illness