Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
measles , 1.
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- noun
measles ,rubeola
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- noun an acute and highly contagious viral disease marked by distinct red spots followed by a rash; occurs primarily in children
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Examples
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- Also called rubeola and morbilli, it is one of the commonest childhood infectious exanthems.
Chapter 13 1993
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Gilbert classifies _variolae et morbilli_ among the universal and infectious diseases, and in the species _apostemata_.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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The distinction between _variolae_ and _morbilli_ is in the form and matter of the disease, for in _variolae_ the pustules are large and the matter bilious (_colerica_), while in morbilli the eruption is smaller and does not penetrate the skin (_non-pertransit cutem_).
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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[Footnote 9: It is at least interesting to know that small-pox is said to have made its first appearance in England in 1241.] _Variolae et morbilli_ arise from moist matter confined in the body and turbid, like turbid blood.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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Accordingly the common people declare that persons who have suffered from _variolae et morbilli_ never acquire leprosy.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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Rational Review 2009
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Variolae et morbilli) dirum morbi genus, quod prim» fuas origines ex Aethiopia deduxiffe videtur, (vid.
Institutiones historiae medicinae Johann Christian Gottlieb Ackermann 1792
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