Measles is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MEASLES in dictionary:

VERB:
• MEASLE, (archaic) to catch or infect with measles
NOUN:
• a disease in swine and other animals caused by the larvae of certain tapeworms of the genus Taenia.
• the larvae that cause measles in swine and other animals, and that upon maturation produce trichinosis in humans.
• infectious disease producing red spots
• 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.
• an acute and highly contagious viral disease marked by distinct red spots followed by a rash; occurs primarily in children
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a tapeworm larva

Words related to MEASLES

measle8 morbilli12 rubeola9

How to use MEASLES in a sentence

• Measles sometimes assume a typhoid or malignant character, in which form the symptoms are all greatly exaggerated, and the case from the first becomes both doubtful and dangerous.
• Stranger as I was, I got on very well till I came to the little village here hard by, where my poor boy that is gone first fell sick of the measles.
• Kingdom, was listening with a languid air to an account of her celebrated escape from measles some forty-three years before.
• The measles! I thought only children got the measles.
• In 1864, measles ran through all the Blackfoot camps, and was very fatal, and again in 1869 they had the small-pox.
• My husband was there and he sent word for me to come cause he had the measles and they had went in on him.
• She hated being so late in town, but the Lenskys, to whom she had been going, had wired to put her off, as Pammy had come down with measles.
• Our Camp one large hospital, with hundreds wrestling with measles, pneumonia, fever.
• My will I made last week, while I was in bed with the measles, and want you to keep that.
• When we were quite little, and had scarlet-fever, and measles, and those things, Dr.
• It may, however, be argued that ideas of these sorts are like measles, and that it is better to take them early and be done with them for ever.
• Sixty-eight and two-tenths per cent of all deaths from broncho-pneumonia occur in children under 5 years of age, a time of life when measles is most apt to occur.
• In this way a single child in the beginning stages of measles may easily affect 15 or 20 others.
• While all of the severe cases may not be as grave as the one which was cited above, it must be admitted, nevertheless, that broncho-pneumonia is the great menace of measles.
• It is thus seen that measles is many times a very severe disease, one which can not be dealt with lightly, one to which we should not expose our children.
• A child with measles should be put to bed and kept there as long as it has any fever or cough.
• The room should be airy, but it should be darkened, because children with measles are very sensitive to light.
• Experimenting with monkeys, they found that they were unable to transmit measles from monkey to monkey after the stage of fever had ceased.
• It is also believed that a discharging ear following measles may be the means of continuing the transmission of the disease.
• Measles today, smallpox, tuberculosis, scarlet fever and everything else tomorrow.
• All youngsters have measles and scarlet fever and Fred says his sister Lucile out in Des Moines had St.
• Something was bound to happen, one of us would develop measles, the world would blow up with a loud explosion.
• With a true Hippocratic spirit he made many careful observations on disease, and to him we owe the first accurate account of smallpox, which he differentiated from measles.
• I suppose she has been neglected since the measles that her mother told me of, or else she never was a strong child.
• A whole soldier any whole soldier has no more detail than any case of measles.

Similar words containing MEASLE without suffix s

measle8 measled10

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