German measles. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002

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German measles


An acute and contagious disease, caused by a virus, producing symptoms milder than those usually associated with measles.	1
‡ German measles can cause severe congenital defects in the developing embryo or fetus of a woman who contracts the disease in her first three months of pregnancy.	2

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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