black measles

American  

noun

Pathology.

1. a severe form of measles characterized by dark, hemorrhagic eruptions.

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black measles British  

plural noun

1. (often functioning as singular) a severe form of measles characterized by dark eruptions caused by bleeding under the skin

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Example Sentences

It is said that the hemorrhagic measles is most apt to occur in epidemics; certain it is that the dreaded black measles of former times is very infrequent now-a-days, due, no doubt, to a more rational treatment and a better hygiene.

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A large number of such cases have been designated and treated as black measles, the real nature of the malady having been mistaken.

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At this stage of the disease the eruption greatly suggests an intense rubeolous exanthem, and has been, as a result, repeatedly mistaken for the so-called black measles.

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These forms are popularly known as black fevers, that is, black measles, black scarlet fever, etc.

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Dey'd git de black measles, go out in de woods and die.

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