| meander | To wind or turn in a course or passage; to be intricate. "Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran." (Coleridge) Origin: Meandered; Meandering. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| meandrina | <zoology> A genus of corals with meandering grooves and ridges, including the brain corals. Origin: NL., cf. F. Meandrine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| measle | <zoology> A tapeworm larva. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| measles | <virology> An acute infectious disease caused by the measles virus, a Morbillivirus in the paramyxovirus family. Early symptoms include a low-grade fever, dry cough, pinkeye and cold symptoms. Later symptoms include tiny, white spots lining the inside of the cheeks (Koplik spots) and a red rash which starts on the face and spreads. Synonym: rubeola. (27 Sep 1997) |
| measles convalescent serum | Obtained from the blood of a healthy person who has survived an attack of measles. Synonym: measles convalescent serum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| measles immune globulin | A sterile solution of globulin's derived from the blood plasma of normal adult human donors; it is prepared from immune serum globulin that complies with the measles antibody reference standard; a passive immunizing agent. Synonym: measles immunoglobulin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| measles immunization | The standard MMR vaccine is given to prevent measles, mumps and rubella (german measles). The mmr vaccine is now given in two dosages. The first should be given at12-15 months of age. The second vaccination should be given at 4-6 years (or, alternatively, 11-12 years) of age. most colleges require proof of a second measles or mmr vaccination prior to entrance. Most children should receive mmr vaccinations. Exceptions may include children born with an inability to fight off infection, some children with cancer, on treatment with radiation or drugs for cancer, on long term steroids (cortisone). People with severe allergic reactions to eggs or the drug neomycin should probably avoid the mmr vaccine. Pregnant women should wait until after delivery before being immunised with mmr. People with HIV or aids should normally receive mmr vaccine. Measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines may be administered as individual shots, if necessary, or as a measles-rubella combination. (12 Dec 1998) |
| measles immunoglobulin | measles immune globulin (human) |
| measles vaccine | A live attenuated virus vaccine of chick embryo origin, used for routine immunization of children and for immunization of adolescents and adults who have not had measles or been immunised with live measles vaccine and have no serum antibodies against measles. Children are usually immunised with measles-mumps-rubella combination vaccine. (12 Dec 1998) |
| measles virus | <virology> Paramyxovirus that causes the childhood disease measles and is responsible for subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. (18 Nov 1997) |
| measles virus vaccine | Vaccine containing live, attenuated strains of measles virus prepared in chick embryo cell culture. See: measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine. (05 Mar 2000) |
| measles, mumps and rubella vaccine | A combination of live attenuated measles, mumps, and rubella viruses in an aqueous suspension; used for immunization against the respective diseases. (05 Mar 2000) |
| measly | 1. Infected with measles. 2. <zoology> Containing larval tapeworms; said of pork and beef. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| measly tapeworm | The pork tapeworm, formally known as taenia solium. Contracted from undercooked or measly pork (pork infected with the larval forms of the tapeworm). Can grow to be 3-6 feet (0.9-1.8 m) long in the human intestine. Also known as the armed tapeworm. (12 Dec 1998) |
| measure | 1. To make a measurement or measurements. 2. To result, or turn out, on measuring; as, the grain measures well; the pieces measure unequally. 3. To be of a certain size or quantity, or to have a certain length, breadth, or thickness, or a certain capacity according to a standard measure; as, cloth measures three fourths of a yard; a tree measures three feet in diameter. 1. A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and stated; hence, a rule by which anything is adjusted or judged. 2. An instrument by means of which size or quantity is measured, as a graduated line, rod, vessel, or the like. "False ells and measures be brought all clean adown." (R. Of Gloucester) 3. The dimensions or capacity of anything, reckoned according to some standard; size or extent, determined and stated; estimated extent; as, to take one's measure for a coat. "The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea." (Job xi. 9) 4. The contents of a vessel by which quantity is measured; a quantity determined by a standard; a stated or limited quantity or amount. "It is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal." (Luke xiii. 21) 5. Extent or degree not excessive or beyong bounds; moderation; due restraint; especially. In the phrases, in measure; with measure; without or beyond measure. "Hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure." (Is. V. 14) 6. Determined extent, not to be exceeded; limit; allotted share, as of action, influence, ability, or the like; due proportion. "Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days." (Ps. Xxxix. 4) 7. The quantity determined by measuring, especially in buying and selling; as, to give good or full measure. 8. Undefined quantity; extent; degree. "There is a great measure of discretion to be used in the performance of confession." (Jer. Taylor) 9. <medicine> Regulated division of movement: The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a foot; as, a poem in iambic measure. 10. <mathematics> A number which is contained in a given number a number of times without a remainder; as in the phrases, the common measure, the greatest common measure, etc, of two or more numbers. 11. A step or definite part of a progressive course or policy; a means to an end; an act designed for the accomplishment of an object; as, political measures; prudent measures; an inefficient measure. "His majesty found what wrong measures he had taken in the conferring that trust, and lamented his error." (Clarendon) 12. The act of measuring; measurement. 13. <geology> Beds or strata; as, coal measures; lead measures. Lineal, or Long, measure, measure of length; the measure of lines or distances. Liquid measure, the measure of liquids. Square measure, the measure of superficial area of surfaces in square units, as inches, feet, miles, etc. To have hard measure, to have harsh treatment meted out to one; to be harshly or oppressively dealt with. To take measures, to make preparations; to provide means. To take one's measure, to measure one, as for a garment; hence, to form an opinion of one's disposition, character, ability, etc. To tread a measure, to dance in the style so called. See 9 . "Say to her, we have measured many miles To tread a measure with her on this grass." (Shak) Origin: OE. Mesure, F. Mesure, L. Mensura, fr. Metiri, mensus, to measure; akin to metrum poetical measure, Gr, E. Meter. Cf. Immense, Mensuration, Mete to measure. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| MEA | scrambling perennial Eurasian wild pea having yellowish flowers and compressed seed pods |
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| MEA | a common pipit that is brown above and white below |
| MEA | any of various herbs of the genus Thalictrum |
| MEA | bulbous autumn-flowering herb with white, purple or lavender-and-white flowers |
| MEA | weedy European annual with yellow flowers |
| MEA | rosette-forming perennial having compact panicles of white flowers |
| MEA | spikemoss forming dense mats |
| MEA | North American insect that severely damages grasses |
| MEA | widely distributed in grasslands of northern United States and Canada |
| MEA | a family of trees and bushes and herbs of order Myrtales |
| MEA | any of various grasses that thrive in the presence of abundant moisture |
| MEA | North American yellow-breasted songbirds |