- beef measles
- beef measles n pl but sing or pl in constr the infestation of beef muscle by cysticerci of the beef tapeworm which make oval white vesicles giving a measly appearance to beef
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cysticercosis in cattle.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
beef measles
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