RUBELLA
\ɹuːbˈɛlə], \ɹuːbˈɛlə], \ɹ_uː_b_ˈɛ_l_ə]\
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An acute, usually benign, infectious disease caused by the RUBELLA VIRUS and most often affecting children and nonimmune young adults, in which the virus enters the respiratory tract via droplet nuclei and spreads to the lymphatic system. (From Dorland, 27th edition)
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r[=oo]-bel'a, n. a contagious disease, with rose-coloured eruption.--Also RUB[=E]'OLA, and German measles.
By Thomas Davidson
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[Latin] German measles; rotheln; epidemic roseola. A specific infectious disease resembling measles, but distinguished by the fact that the eruption sets in immediately or within a few hours after the onset of the disease, is accompanied by only slight catarrhal symptoms, is lighter in color and not arranged in crescentic groups, and disappears without sequelae in a week, Treatment, rest in bed.
By Alexander Duane
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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