koplik's spots

1. 1.

   small red spots with white centers found on the mucous membranes of the mouth and tongue; symptom of measles that appears one or two days before the measles rash appears

   Broadersymptom

Questions about koplik's spots

What does koplik's spots mean?

koplik's spots means "small red spots with white centers found on the mucous membranes of the mouth and tongue; symptom of measles that appears one or two days before the measles rash appears".

Is koplik's spots a common word?

koplik's spots is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.