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Definition

an acute and highly contagious viral disease marked by distinct red spots followed by a rash; occurs primarily in children

She never received a measles vaccination, so we'll have to wait 8 to 12 days to find out if she caught it.

Crying is catching, I believe, like measles and whooping-cough.
Edith Nesbit -- The Railway Children

measles = a highly contagious viral disease marked by distinct red spots followed by a rash; occurs primarily in children and was very common before vaccinations were widely given to prevent it

It looks like measles.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

measles = contagious viral disease marked by distinct red spots

We entertain ourselves by trying to figure out which disease they've got, and we've reached the conclusion that they suffer from cancer, smallpox and measles.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

measles = contagious viral disease marked by distinct red spots

Mother began to be afraid that he might be sickening for measles, when suddenly he sat up in bed and said: 'I hate gruel — I hate barley water — I hate bread and milk.'
Edith Nesbit -- The Railway Children
Which is quite true, if you come to think of it, and a useful thing to remember in seasons of trouble — such as measles, arithmetic, impositions, and those times when you are in disgrace, and feel as though no one would ever love you again, and you could never — never again — love anybody.
Edith Nesbit -- The Railway Children
Then the sickness came, pneumonia, and measles that went to the eyes and to the mastoids.
John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath
She drew back her shoulder blades as if preparing for a measles shot—something painful but necessary.
Rick Riordan -- The Hidden Oracle
Red acne covered his face like the measles.
Tim O'Brien -- Going After Cacciato
The boy Roger had arrived home with measles; they were all in quarantine.
Daphne du Maurier -- Rebecca
When one cousin caught the measles or mumps, we were all quarantined together so as to get that childhood illness over and done with.
Julia Alvarez -- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
At SIS-C slaughterhouses, visibly diseased animals cattle infected with measles and tapeworms, covered with abscesses were being slaughtered.
Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
But I remember time—was quite small—when measles got loose and thousands died.
Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
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.
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
Any child running a fever, having a sprained limb, or showing signs of any disease like chicken pox or measles was automatically disqualified.
W. William Winokur -- The Perfect Game
He had the measles and the hooping-cough.
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
Babies came to the county health department with ant bites that looked like measles.
Rick Bragg -- All Over but the Shoutin'
Cause I— cause my brudder's god measles.
Henry Roth -- Call It Sleep
Every rash was either chicken pox or measles.
Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns
They should have called it the M.U.M.P.S. or the M.E.A.S.L.E.S. But no. The Measles is much more dangerous.
Ernest Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls

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