• (measles morbillivirus) Any viral organism that can be assigned to the species Measles morbillivirus.
  CDISC Terminology
  Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
• Etiologic agent of measles and certain forms of encephalitis.
  CRISP Thesaurus
  National Institutes of Health, 2006
• The type species of MORBILLIVIRUS and the cause of the highly infectious human disease MEASLES, which affects mostly children.
  NLM Medical Subject Headings
  U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
• The virus that causes measles (a highly contagious disease marked by fever, cough, and raised red spots on the skin). The measles virus usually affects children, and is spread by coughing or contact with fluid from the nose or mouth of someone who has been infected.
  NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
• (measles morbillivirus) A morbillivirus that causes the childhood disease measles and is responsible for subacute sclerosing panencephalitis.
  NCI
  U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021