单词 | rubella |
释义 | rubellan. Medicine. An acute, typically mild viral disease characterized by a pink maculopapular rash with fever, sore throat, and cervical and occipital lymph node enlargement. Also called German measles.Rubella can infect the embryo or fetus while in the uterus, resulting in a syndrome of congenital malformations including deafness, heart and eye defects, and brain damage. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > German measles rötheln1840 rubeola1840 German measles1856 rubella1866 1866 H. Veale in Edinb. Med. Jrnl. (1867) 12 i. 414 I therefore venture to propose Rubella as a substitute for Rötheln, or, at any rate, as a name for the disease which it has been my object in this paper to describe. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 118 As a rule rubella runs its course without complications. 1925 Times 20 Jan. 14/5 Dukes..wrote the articles on scarlet fever and rubella in the Encyclopædia of Medicine. 1965 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 65 No. 10. 126/2 The recent advances in knowledge of the natural history of rubella virus infections have clarified our understanding of the pathogenesis of congenital rubella in newborn infants. 2004 Time 12 Apr. 78/3 A giant study of practically every child in Denmark found no causative link between autism and the so-called MMR shot—the triple vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella. Compounds C1. General attributive. ΚΠ 1899 Arch. Pediatrics 16 3 The eruption in the rubella cases was more evanescent than in the cases where measles was diagnosed. 1921 Lancet 15 Oct. 815/2 It is more discrete than a rubella rash. 1967 Jrnl. Pediatrics 70 243/1 Mental retardation and microcephaly are frequently seen in infants with congenital rubella syndrome. 1971 Where Sept. 271/1 Blindness..is linked with additional handicaps such as deafness, cerebral palsy or mental retardation (for example, ‘rubella’ babies often have more than one handicap). 2006 Washington Post 5 Jan. a3/4 Stanley Plotkin, inventor of the rubella vaccine and the dean of American vaccinologists. C2. rubella virus n. the togavirus (genus Rubivirus) that causes rubella. ΚΠ 1940 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 1 June 912/2 Then may not the rubella virus be affecting different people in different ways? 1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 22 July 204/1 They stress the prolonged excretion of rubella virus both by infants with the ‘rubella syndrome’ and by older patients after natural or artificially induced rubella. 2009 P. K. Rao in M. Yanoff & J. S. Duker Ophthalmol. (ed. 3) vii. 792/2 The ophthalmic manifestations of rubella virus are similar to those of measles virus infections. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1866 |
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