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German measles

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Rubella. offensive, plural, plural-only, possibly
  2. 2
    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 wordnet

Etymology

First described and distinguished from rubeola, red measles by the German doctor Friedrich Hoffmann in 1740

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