Rubella is a disease. The symptoms are a cough, a sore throat, and red spots on your skin.
[medicine]
rubella in British English
(ruːˈbɛlə)
noun
a mild contagious viral disease, somewhat similar to measles, characterized by cough, sore throat, skin rash, and occasionally vomiting. It can cause congenital defects if caught during the first three months of pregnancy
Also called: German measles
Word origin
C19: from New Latin, from Latin rubellus reddish, from rubeus red
rubella in American English
(ruˈbɛlə)
noun
a mild, infectious, communicable viral disease, characterized by swollen glands, esp. of the back of the head and neck, and small red spots on the skin; German measles
Word origin
ModL, neut. pl. of L rubellus, reddish < ruber, red