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A tapeworm larva. See 2d Measles, 4.

Infected or spotted with measles, as pork. -- Mea"sled*ness, n.

d above the surface, and after the fourth day of the eruption gradually decline; rubeola. Measles commences with the ordinary symptoms of fever. Am. Cyc.

rva of any species of tapeworm (Tænia), found in the flesh or other parts of animals. See Measle, Cysticercus. -- Bladder wrack (Bot.), the common black rock weed of the seacoast (Fucus nodosus and F. vesiculosus) -- called also bladder tangle. See Wrack.

, contagion, infection, or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to catch the measles or smallpox; to catch cold; the house caught fire.

Contagion; contagious matter. "Contagium of measles." Tyndall.

m attached to a saclike body filled with fluid; -- called also bladder worm, hydatid, and measle (as, pork measle).

A redness of the skin; eruption, as in rash, measles, smallpox, scarlatina, etc.

The breaking out of pimples, or an efflorescence, as in measles, scarlatina, etc.

An efflorescence or discoloration of the skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in measles, smallpox, scarlatina, and the like diseases; -- sometimes limited to eruptions attended with fever. Dunglison.

y germs carried in the air or water, and thus spread without contact with the patient, as measles.

Infected with measles.

See 1st Measle. [Obs.]

Pertaining to the measles; partaking of the nature of measels, or resembling the eruptions of that disease; measly.

An acute specific disease with a dusky red cutaneous eruption resembling that of measles, but unattended by catarrhal symptoms; -- called also German measles.

the measles.