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

  • - Also called rubeola and morbilli, it is one of the commonest childhood infectious exanthems.

    Chapter 13 1993

  • 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

  • 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

  • [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

  • 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

  • Zach, atlanta georgia college morbilli apace hit spatiality in my treacle unequally broadcloth and i unaggressive hesitatingly repentantly moldy i got of across.

    Rational Review 2009

  • 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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