Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A mild contagious eruptive disease caused by a virus and capable of producing congenital defects in infants born to mothers infected during the first three months of pregnancy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A usually insignificant contagious disease, with a rose-colored eruption, slight catarrhal symptoms in the mucous membranes of the head and larger air-passages of the chest, and usually slight pyrexia and cervical lymphadenitis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) An acute but mild viral infection characterized by a dusky red cutaneous eruption resembling that of measles, but attended by only mild respiratory problems or fever; -- called also
German measles . The infective virus is called Rubella virus, or Rubivirus. If contracted by a woman during the first several months of pregnancy,rubella may cause serious abnormalities in the fetus.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun pathology A mild disease caused by the Rubella virus infecting the
respiratory tract , and characterised by a rash of pink dots, fever and swollenlymph nodes .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a contagious viral disease that is a milder form of measles lasting three or four days; can be damaging to a fetus during the first trimester
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The mumps vaccine is contained in a combination vaccine called MMR (measles, mumps and rubella, which is also known as German measles).
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Measles, also called rubella, is a highly contagious - but rare - respiratory infection that's caused by a virus.
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And other infectious diseases, such as rubella, chickenpox, and Legionnaires' disease are not uncommon.
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And other infectious diseases, such as rubella, chickenpox, and Legionnaires 'disease are not uncommon.
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Bacterial or viral infections - Diseases such as rubella, chlamydia, anaerobic vaginosis, cytomegalovirus, etc., can result in miscarriage or congenital deformity if contracted during early pregnancy.
Miscarriage 2007
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These new regulations take new steps to protect the health of all Americans by ensuring legal immigrants can access - without fear - free immunizations, testing, and treatment for communicable diseases, such as rubella or tuberculosis.
Vice President Takes Assure Families Access To Health Care ITY National Archives 1999
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"We vaccinate against other illnesses such as rubella, meningitis, chicken pox, polio, so why not cervical cancer, which can be terminal?"
NewsWire.co.nz 2009
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The authors note that other types of maternal infections during pregnancy such as rubella, varicella, cytomegalovirus and toxoplasmosis may cause central nervous system abnormalities and cognitive delay in offspring.
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"We vaccinate against other illnesses such as rubella, meningitis, chicken pox, polio, so why not cervical cancer, which can be terminal?"
NewsWire.co.nz 2009
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The authors note that other types of maternal infections during pregnancy such as rubella, varicella, cytomegalovirus and toxoplasmosis may cause central nervous system abnormalities and cognitive delay in offspring.
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