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• The Europeans brought new diseases such as smallpox, measles, dysentery, influenza, syphilis and leprosy.From the entry smallpox
• After the rash of measles fades, there is desquamation.From the entry desquamation
• What the measles do you think you're doing?From the entry the measles
• The corresponding virus (now called rubella) has no relation to Germany, nor the actual measles virus.2021 May 12, Ashley Mayrianne Champagne, “Why Scientists Should Not Name Diseases Based On Location”, in American Society for Microbiology. From the entry liberty measles
• We know there are unimmunized people out there, and measles is extremely infectious.2008 May 2, Denise Grady, “Measles in U.S. at Highest Level Since 2001”, in The New York Times. From the entry unimmunized
• Measles and other vaccine-preventable illnesses are making a comeback.2022 December 27, André Picard, “What did we learn from a year of outbreaks? Our response to viruses shows we aren’t using our mitigation…. From the entry mpox
• Similarly, the term "German measles" arose from inconsistent terminology following its initial description by its German discoverers as Rötheln (red).2021 May 12, Ashley Mayrianne Champagne, “Why Scientists Should Not Name Diseases Based On Location”, in American Society for Microbiology. From the entry liberty measles
• It might be catching, like the measles!2005, Warren L. Braun, Was It a Miracle?. From the entry pk
• Personally, we feel that overwrapping is more harmful than underwrapping in measles as well as in many other conditions.1935, The Hahnemannian Monthly - Volume 70, page 386. From the entry overwrap
• The mild cases of measles may show moderate urobilinuria, the more severe are likely to give positive reaction.1916, Henry Leopold Elsner, The Prognosis of Internal Diseases, volume 6, page 783. From the entry urobilinuria
• Before the vaccination campaign, 17.3% of children under 9 months were DTP zero-dose and 4.3% of children 9–60 months were measles zero-dose.2021 December 30, Rohan Arambepola, Yangyupei Yang, Kyle Hutchinson, Francis Dien Mwansa, Julie Ann Doherty, Frazer Bwalya, Phillimon…. From the entry zero-dose
• A grown thirty-year-old with the measles!2012, Earl Cooke, Redemption of a Dark Hero, page 26. From the entry don't that beat all
• It wasn't any kind of physical illness, not measles or chicken pox or even the Hershey Squirts, the most humiliating and debilitating of them all.1991, Stephen King, Needful Things. From the entry Hershey squirts
• We know that the most deadly of the early epidemics in America were those of the eruptive fevers—smallpox, measles, typhus, and so on.1973, Alfred W. Crosby, The Columbian Exchange, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 42. From the entry smallpox
• At issue is the so-called MMR vaccine, which immunizes children against measles, mumps and rubella, three potentially deadly diseases that were once common and have been mostly wiped out.2002 February 10, Sarah Lyall, “Britain Tries to Quell Fear Over Vaccine for Children”, in The New York Times, archived from the original…. From the entry mumps
• As a child I collected thirty-five once in my hands and they fought, leaving my hands, their battlefield, covered with a rash like measles which lasted for some days.1966, Otta F. Swire, The Outer Hebrides and Their Legends, page 100. From the entry oobit
• Then the man effected measles and stayed off the job for six weeks, babying himself at home, though he lived just round the corner from my half-built house.1944, Emily Carr, “Friction”, in The House of All Sorts. From the entry baby
• The youngest son of Frikkie's sister had been betrothed to the girl who had measles in my house ; she was my sister's child, and thus I was double aunt.1923, Mrs. Alida M. de Wet Badenhorst, Tant' Alie of Transvaal: Her Diary 1880-1902, page 235. From the entry double aunt

Meaning of measles

1. noun An acute and highly contagious disease which often afflicts children caused by the virus Measles morbillivirus and causing red rashes, fever, runny nose, coughing, and red eyes.
2. noun Synonym of cysticercosis: A disease of livestock or meat caused by the presence of tapeworm larvae.
3. noun Any disease causing a tree's bark to become rough and irregular.

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How do you use measles in a sentence?

Measles is used as a noun. For example: “The Europeans brought new diseases such as smallpox, measles, dysentery, influenza, syphilis and leprosy.”

What is a short sentence with measles?

“Maybe it's the 'measles.”

What does measles mean?

Measles means an acute and highly contagious disease which often afflicts children caused by the virus Measles morbillivirus and causing red rashes, fever, runny nose, coughing, and red eyes.