MEASLES (2)

Mea″sles, n.; pl. in form, but used as singular in senses 1, 2, & 3. [[D. mazelen; akin to G. masern, pl., and E. mazer, and orig. meaning, little spots. See Mazer.]] 1. 1. (Med.) 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.
Measles commences with the ordinary symptoms of fever. Am. Cyc. 2. 2. (Veter. Med.) A disease of cattle and swine in which the flesh is filled with the embryos of different varieties of the tapeworm.
3. 3. A disease of trees.
4. 4. pl. (Zoöl.) The larvæ of any tapeworm (Tænia) in the cysticerus stage, when contained in meat. Called also bladder worms.