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(med’o-). See Colchicum. measles (me’zelz) [1,. morbil'li]. 1. A contagious eruptive fever with coryza and catarrhal symp- [Vittorio See A West African ordeal Susceptible of toms. The period of incubation is about two weeks, and the disease begins with fever, chills, conjunctivitis, severe coryza, and frequently bronchitis, causing cough and frontal headache. The eruption appears on the fourth day on the forehead, cheeks, and back of the neck, spreading thence over the body. It consists of small, dark pink macules in crescentic groups, which fre- uently become confluent. After two or three days the eruption begins to fade, and is followed in one or two weeks by desquamation. The symptoms increase with the eruption and decrease with the disappearance of it, convalescence beginning in the second week. The disease is extremely contagious and affects chiefly the young, one attack usually conferring immunity. Measles is prone to lead to complications, the chief of which are pneumonia, bronchitis, phthisis, and_ otitis media. See exanthemata, table of. 2. Cyst i cercal disease of domestic animals. bastard m., rubella. black m., a severe form in which the eruption is very dark and petechial. confluent m., measles in which the lesions of the eruption coalesce. German m. Sec rubeola. hemorrhagicm. Sameas back m. pork m., a condition in which pork is infected with the Cysticer’cus cellulo’ se.