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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
originFrom Latin rubellus (“reddish”), diminutive of ruber (“red”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-.
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