measles
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
measles/ˈmiːzlz/
▶plural noun [treated as sing.]
- 1 an infectious viral disease causing fever and a red rash, typically occurring in childhood.
- 2 a disease of pigs caused by encysted larvae of the human tapeworm.
– origin ME maseles, prob. from MDu. masel ‘pustule’.
'measles' also found in these Oxford entries:
German measles
- measly
- MMR
- morbilli
- morbillivirus
- paramyxovirus
- roseola
- rubella
- rubeola
