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Definition: Rubella
Rubella
Noun
1. 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.
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d.
Etymology: Rubella \Ru*bel"la\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Latin expr
ession rubellus reddish.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Rubella

Domain Definitions
Health An acute, usually benign, infectious disease caused by a togavirus and m
ost often affecting children and nonimmune young adults, in which the virus ente
rs the respiratory tract via droplet nuclei and spreads to the lymphatic system.
It is characterized by a slight cold, sore throat, and fever, followed by enlar
gement of the postauricular, suboccipital, and cervical lymph nodes, and the app
earances of a fine pink rash that begins on the head and spreads to become gener
alized. Called also German measles, roetln, r?n, and three-day measles, and rube
ola in French and Spanish. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Rubella
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Rubella, commonly known as German measles, is a disease caused by the rubella vi
rus. The virus usually enters the body through the nose or throat. The disease c
an last 1-5 days. Children recover more quickly than adults.
Symptoms
Symptoms of rubella include:
swollen glands
fever
rash
flaking, dry skin
inflammation of the eyes
nasal congestion
joint pain and swelling
pain in the testicles
Risks
Rubella can affect anyone of any age and is generally a mild disease. However, r
ubella can cause congenital rubella syndrome in the fetus of an infected pregnan
t woman.
Prevention & Treatment
Fewer cases of rubella occur since a vaccine became available in 1969. Most peop
le are vaccinated against rubella as children at 12-15 months of age. A second d
ose is required before age 11.
Symptoms are usually treated with acetaminophen until the disease has run its co
urse.
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Synonyms: Rubella
Synonyms: epidemic roseola (n), three-day measles (n). (additional references)
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Crosswords: Rubella
English words defined with "rubella": rubella panencephalitis ? teratogen. (refe
rences)
Specialty definitions using "rubella": Arthritis, Infectious ? Erythema Infectio
sum ? Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine ? Rubella Virus, Rubivirus. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Rubella" is also a word in the following languages with Engl
ish translations in parentheses.
Dutch (rubella), German (rubella).
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Commercial Usage: Rubella
Domain Title
Books Psychiatric disorders of children with congenital rubella (reference)
(more book examples)
Music Songs for Rubella (reference)
(more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Photo Album: Rubella

Thumbnail Description & Credit Thumbnail Description & Credit

Postauricular lymph nodes are frequently swollen in rubella. Credit: CDC
. Face of adult with rash of rubella. Credit: CDC.
Julie Nixon Eisenhower with Dr. David Sencer (Director of CDC) and Dr. W
illiam Foege at CDC, January 18, 1972, for Immunization Program's Awards Ceremon
y for DeKalb County Rubella Vaccine Study. Credit: CDC. Transmission ele
ctron micrograph of rubella virus. Credit: CDC.
She Suffered From Rubella For Three Days Her Baby May Suffer For Life :
Rubella. Vaccinate Before It's Too Late. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
Someday... You might have a Baby! : Don't risk Birth Defects from Rubell
a!. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
[Developers of a promising new experimental vaccine against rubella (Ger
man measles)]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Rubella
Subject Topic Quote
Health Children get vaccinations for other diseases like measles, mumps
, and rubella. (references)
Live virus vaccines (regular measles, German measles or rubella,
mumps, polio) should not be given. (references)
The last disease prevented by the MMR vaccine, rubella, is harmf
ul to pregnant women and their growing babies. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Rubella
"Rubella" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 82.50% of the
time. "Rubella" is used about 40 times out of a sample of 100 million words spok
en or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the En
glish language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by
the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one perc
ent have been omitted)
Parts of Speech Percent Usage per
100 Million Words Rank in English
Noun (singular) 82.5% 33 60,273
Noun (proper) 17.5% 7 133,076
Total 100.00% 40 N/A
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Expressions: Rubella
Expressions using "rubella": rubella panencephalitis ? Rubella Vaccine ? Rubella
Virus. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
Beginning with "rubella": rubella-damaged.
Ending with "rubella": Measles-Mumps-Rubella.
Containing "rubella": Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Rubella

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the majo
r English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. H
yperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression Frequency
per Day Expression Frequency
per Day
rubella 248 pregnancy rubella vaccine 3
picture rubella 16 german measles rubella 3
rubella pregnancy 13 rubella vaccination 3
rubella vaccine 12 igg rubella 3
rubella virus 12 peperomia rubella 3
antigen rubella 11 photo rubella 2
measles mumps rubella 8 measles rubella 2
disease rubella 7 its judged one resist rubella siam star want we who wing
s 2
rubella symptom 6 japanese rubella skimmia 2
congenital rubella syndrome 6 antibody rubella 2
rubella titer 5 rubella shot 2
congenital rubella 4 rubella immunization 2
in pregnancy rubella 4 rash rubella 2
measles mumps and rubella vaccine 4
rash rubella 2
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Modern Translations: Rubella
Language Translations for "rubella"; alternative meanings/domain
in parentheses.
Arabic ??????? ?????????. (various references)
Bulgarian ??????? (german measles). (various references)
Chinese ??. (various references)
Czech zardìnky (german measles), spalnièky (measles). (various references)

Danish rubeola, rubella (german measles), roede hunde (german measles).

(various references)
Dutch rubeola (german measles), rubella, rode hond (german measles). (
various references)
Finnish vihurirokko (German measles). (various references)
French rubéole, rougeole. (various references)
German Rubella, Roeteln (German measles), röteln (german measles). (vario
us references)
Greek ??????. (various references)
Hebrew ???? (rubeola), ?????? (german measles, rubeola). (vario
us references)

Hungarian rubeóla (german measles, measles, roseola, rubeola), rózsaláz

(rubeola). (various references)
Italian rosolia (german measles). (various references)
Japanese Kanji ?? (German measles). (various references)

Japanese Katakana ???? (German measles, wind god). (various refere

nces)
Pig Latin ubellaray
Portuguese rubéola (german american). (various references)
Russian ???????? (german measles, rose rash, roseola). (various
references)
Spanish rubéola (german measles). (various references)
Thai ????????????? (German measles). (various references)

Turkish k?zam?kç?k (german measles, rose rash, roseola). (various referenc

es)
Ukranian ???????? (roseola). (various references)
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Derivations & Misspellings: Rubella
Derivations
Words beginning with "rubella": rubellas. (additional references)

Misspellings
"Rubella" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arbella, bruc
ella, Brunelli, Brunello, Crunella, Frutella, Kubelka, Rauball, rebella, rebelle
, Rebollo, ribelli, robella, Robull, Rohela, Roubiliac, Roubilliac, Rubale, rube
l, rubela, Ruellan, Ruelle, Rumeila, Trewhella, Tufeila. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references)
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Rhyming with "Rubella"
# of Phoneme Matches Pronunciation Word(s) rhyming with "rubella" (pronounc
ed ruwbe"lu)
4 -b e" l u labella.
3 -e" l u Candela, cella, citronella, favela, fella, flagella, novella, pa
tella, Prunella, salmonella, Stella, Tele, umbrella, Vela.
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Anagrams: Rubella