‖ rubeola Path.
(ruːˈbiːələ)
[mod.L., neut. pl. of *rubeolus, dim. form of L. rubeus reddish. Cf. F. rubéole.]
† 1. (See quots. and rubeols.) Obs.
| 1676 J. Cooke Marrow Chirurg. iv. i. ix. 739 Rubeola, small red pimples among the Small-Pox and Measles, which sometimes happens to persons in health. 1693 tr. Blancard's Phys. Dict. (ed. 2), Rubeola, a sort of Small Pox, or Measles. |
2. Measles.
| 1803 Med. Jrnl. IX. 38 Neither were the symptoms of rubeola in the least lessened or retarded. 1834 Cycl. Pract. Med. III. 625/1 By the term rubeola, or measles, in modern times, is understood a contagious inflammatory disease [etc.]. 1843 Sir T. Watson Princ. & Pract. Physic II. 748 Another of these blood diseases is the measles; called also by nosologists, rubeola, and morbilli. 1883 J. N. Hyde Pract. Treatm. Dis. Skin ix. i. 389 The distinction between rubeola and rötheln will be given later. 1909 C. B. Ker Infectious Dis. ii. 21 It would be simpler if every one referred to measles as ‘morbilli’ and to German measles as ‘rubella’, and if the term rubeola were allowed to drop. Ibid., Unfortunately the term ‘rubeola’ is..freely used to designate measles. 1947 K. Wiener Skin Manifestations of Internal Disorders iv. 90 The latin term rubeola is used for this disease [sc. German measles] in the German literature, while in the English-American terminology, rubeola designates true measles. 1969 A. B. Christie Infectious Dis. xii. 346 The term rubeola still lingers on as a synonym of measles, though this usage was condemned as long ago as 1909 by Ker. 1973 Sci. Amer. Sept. 105/1 The same principle now allows very effective immunization against poliomyelitis, tetanus, diphtheria and both kinds of measles (rubella and rubeola). |
3. German measles; rubella; rötheln.
| 1858 J. Copland Dict. Pract. Med. III. i. 655 Rubeola holds a place between measles and scarlet fever, the name being derived from its deep red colour. 1863 Aitken Pract. Med. (ed. 2) I. 340 The following table..shows that rubeola, rötheln, or the mixed disease has every right to be considered as a distinct affection. 1901 Fagge & Pye-Smith Text Bk. Med. (ed. 4) I. 185 It is often difficult to distinguish rubeola from ‘ordinary rose-rash’. |
Hence
ruˈbeolar a., of the nature of, characteristic of, pertaining to, rubeola.
rubeˈoliform a., having the form or appearance of rubeola.
ruˈbeoloid a., resembling, similar to, rubeola;
n., a disease resembling rubeola.
ruˈbeolous a., rubeolar.
| 1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. xv. 249 An exanthem, erythematous on the face, *rubeolar on the trunk and limbs. |
| 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 485 Erythematous urticaria in sheets (roseoliform, *rubeoliform, scarlatiniform). |
| 1857 Dunglison Med. Lex. (rev. ed.) 806 s.v. Roseolæ, *Rubeoloid, a term which is applicable to any eruption resembling rubeola. 1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. ix. 168 Being attended with a well-marked rubeoloid eruption. 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 464 The first group which they call Rubeoloids and Scarlatinoids. |
| 1822–34 Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) II. 334 If..*rubeolous contagion should have been previously received into the system. 1880 A. Flint Princ. Med. 1066 Occasionally vesicles are intermingled with the rubeolous papules. |