(n.) A contagious febrile disorder commencing with catarrhal symptoms, and marked by the appearance on the third day of an eruption of distinct red circular spots, which coalesce in a crescentic form, are slightly raised above the surface, and after the fourth day of the eruption gradually decline; rubeola.
(n.) A disease of cattle and swine in which the flesh is filled with the embryos of different varieties of the tapeworm.
(n.) A disease of trees.
(n.) The larvae of any tapeworm (Taenia) in the cysticerus stage, when contained in meat. Called also bladder worms.
Example Sentences:
(1) By 1978, the reduction in incidence of measles will exceed 90%.
(2) In an effort to identify the optimal dose and strain of measles vaccination for early immunization, Peruvian infants were randomly assigned to receive one of three measles vaccines in varying doses at 5 to 6 or 8 to 9 months of age.
(3) Five potential N-linked glycosylation sites are present in the measles H protein sequence.
(4) From our data, more than 1 X 10(6) antibody molecules must bind to each cell infected with measles virus before complement dependent lysis can occur in a homologous test system.
(5) The results showed that measles virus produced three size classes of plus-sense N-containing RNA species corresponding to monocistronic N RNA, bicistronic NP RNA, and antigenomes.
(6) The relatively high HI titres observed, particularly in adults, imply that antigenic restimulation of antibody against measles occurs and thus that coverage by immunization remains inadequate.
(7) Foremost among the predisposing factors were measles (25%), empyema thoraxis (17%), and unconsciousness (13%).
(8) A resurgence of measles, a highly infectious viral infection, has occurred in the United States.
(9) Unvaccinated children had a mortality hazard ratio of 3.0 compared with vaccinated children (P = .002), indicating a protective efficacy against death of 66% (CI 32%-83%) of measles vaccination.
(10) While measles virus caused extensive damage to nervous tissue, the SSPE strains, in general, exerted a less deleterious effect.
(11) Measles and rubella antibody titres in patients with and without HLA-Dw2 and HLA-B7 antigens were compared using a sensitive radioimmunoassay method.
(12) The reduced anti-M antibody in sera from patients with SSPE was demonstrated whether immune precipitation was performed with wild-type measles virus or SSPE virus proteins.
(13) Ninety per cent of children who had pre-vaccination measles antibodies showed a two-fold or more rise in HI antibodies.
(14) The antibody response to the measles component was marginally better in the older group, but no differences were observed in the response to the mumps and rubella components.
(15) It is suggested that malnourished children in the community or the very young can be safely and effectively vaccinated against measles.
(16) Age at measles contraction was obtained and analyzed for 44 SSPE patients identified in Karachi between 1983 and 1988.
(17) From these libraries, a measles virus specific sequence corresponding to 885 of 1600 nucleotides of the measles virus phosphoprotein gene has been cloned.
(18) Homogeneous IgG bands were separated by preparative agarose electrophoresis and were found to represent measles virus-specific antibodies.
(19) Cross-sectional surveys of the measles immunisation status of resident 6-23-month-old infants were conducted immediately before, immediately after, and approximately 2 months after the campaign in order to determine the effectiveness of a mass campaign in boosting coverage in an area with a high influx rate.
(20) Biopsies from controls did not show evidence of measles virus.
Rash
Definition:
(v. t.) To pull off or pluck violently.
(v. t.) To slash; to hack; to cut; to slice.
(n.) A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation.
(n.) An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted.
(superl.) Esp., overhasty in counsel or action; precipitate; resolving or entering on a project or measure without due deliberation and caution; opposed to prudent; said of persons; as, a rash statesman or commander.
(superl.) Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection; as, rash words; rash measures.
(superl.) So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn.
(v. t.) To prepare with haste.
Example Sentences:
(1) The rash presented either as a pityriasis rosea-like picture which appeared about three to six months after the onset of treatment in patients taking low doses, or alternatively, as lichenoid plaques which appeared three to six months after commencement of medication in patients taking high doses.
(2) Two young patients presented with generalised lymphadenopathy, otorrhoea, otitis, and rash.
(3) --The frequency of common clinical manifestations (eg, headache, fever, and rash) and laboratory findings (eg, leukocyte and platelet counts and serum chemistry abnormalities) of patients with infectious diseases was tabulated.
(4) The cause of death was thought to be postoperative Graft Versus Host Disease with skin rash and pancytopenia.
(5) Adverse reactions associated with ticlopidine included neutropenia (severe in one patient) with no clinical complications, diarrhea, or rash.
(6) The presence of an erythematous skin rash and hemorrhagic complications in acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) suggest that the vasculature may be involved in the immunopathologic process.
(7) Hypersensitivity reactions, most commonly skin rashes or pruritus, affect about 1% of patients.
(8) The adverse effects were negligible--one patient had light urticarial rash and pruritus.
(9) In vitro invasion and in vivo metastasis assays were performed with a panel of MCF-7 cells transfected with isogenic constructs of mutated rasH genes.
(10) We describe a man who presented with Reiter's syndrome and a new prominent malar rash.
(11) A 71-year-old female showed a rash over the S2-4 dermatomes on the right side.
(12) Somebody rashly asked if he listened to the recently reprieved 6 Music – no – or even Radio 1, which he only caught, he said, when turning the dial between Radios 3 and 4.
(13) These indicators included temperature elevation, inability to be consoled, level of alertness, nuchal rigidity, bulging fontanel, decreased appetite, rash, referral, and febrile seizures.
(14) Extracardiac adverse effects of quinidine include potentially intolerable gastrointestinal effects and hypersensitivity reactions such as fever, rash, blood dyscrasias and hepatitis.
(15) The protective effects of FK565 against systemic infections with herpes simplex virus (HSV) and murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV), respiratory tract infection with influenza virus and zosteriform rash with HSV investigated in mice.
(16) These included petechial rash, hypertrichosis, acute renal failure, fluid retention and cardiac failure.
(17) These results suggest a frequent infection with HHV-6 only a few weeks after BMT and a close association between the infection with the virus and the development of skin rashes.
(18) Of these five, one came from a 'normal' control who had a positive anti-nuclear antibody (ANA), facial rash and diabetes, two were from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and two were from patients with mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD).
(19) The drug was withdrawn in 6 patients--lack of response in one, thrombocytopenia in one, urticaria in one, rash in one, and granulocytopenia in 2.
(20) Supplementation with zinc sulfate 220 mg per day via nasogastric tube resulted in disappearance of the rash with return of serum zinc to normal levels.