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MEASLES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An acute and highly contagious viral disease marked by distinct red spots followed by a rash; occurs primarily in children
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("measles" is a kind of...):
contagion; contagious disease (any disease easily transmitted by contact)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "measles"):
epidemic roseola; German measles; rubella; three-day measles (a contagious viral disease that is a milder form of measles lasting three or four days; can be damaging to a fetus during the first trimester)
Context examples:
Presence of cold agglutinins may be indicative of mycoplasmal pneumonia, mononucleosis, mumps, measles, scarlet fever, some parasitic infections, cirrhosis of the liver, and some types of hemolytic anemia.
(Cold Agglutinin, NCI Thesaurus)
I do think it was the most fortunate thing in the world that those children should have the measles just now, said Meg, one April day, as she stood packing the 'go abroady' trunk in her room, surrounded by her sisters.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
A combination peptide vaccine of 2 chimeric peptides of the promiscuous T cell epitope derived from measles virus fusion protein (MVF; amino acid residues 288-302) co-synthesized with B-cell epitopes derived from the HER-2/neu a.a. 597-626 and HER-2/neu a.a. 266-296, with potential antineoplastic activity.
(MVF-HER-2(597-626)/MVF-HER-2 (266-296) Peptide Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)
MVF-HER-2(628-647)-CRL 1005 vaccine, coated with poloxamer CRL-1005 to form microparticles, consists of a mutated HER-2 B-cell epitope, HER-2(628-647), and a promiscuous T cell epitope (amino acid sequence 288-302) of the measles virus fusion protein (MVF).
(MVF-HER-2(628-647)-CRL 1005 Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)
Since then, the government has reported more cases of measles, including 165 in the single day before the shutdown began.
(Samoan government temporarily shuts down for nationwide measles vaccination drive, Wikinews)
He said, from the first, it was a very good sort—which was our great comfort; but the measles are a dreadful complaint.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
A live, attenuated measles vaccine with potential antineoplastic activity.
(Live Attenuated Measles Virus Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)
She was a woman in the prime of life; of a severe countenance; and subject (particularly in the arms) to a sort of perpetual measles or fiery rash.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The first measles vaccine was introduced in the 1960s, and the incidence dropped, in some cases to almost zero, in parts of the world in which its use became widespread.
(Samoan government temporarily shuts down for nationwide measles vaccination drive, Wikinews)
You were very bad with the measles; that is, you would have been very bad, but for Perry's great attention.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
