Noun1.Koplik's spots- 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 symptom- (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and...
Small red spots on the buccal mucous membrane, in the center of each of which may be seen, in a strong light, a minute bluish white speck; they occur early in measles (morbilli), before the skin eruption, and are regarded as a pathognomonic sign of the disease. ...
Koplik (1858-1927) is usually given credit for being the first (1896) to note and report the labial and buccal mucosal spots which are an important early sign of measles.1 But Henoch (1820-1910),...
Lipman: N. Filatov was one of the first to describe, in 1885, the prerash (prodromal stage) symptom of measles small, red, squamative spots in the mucous membrane of the mouth; ...