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Measles (probably from Middle Dutch or Middle High German masel(e) ("blemish, blood blister")) [11] is a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable infectious disease caused by measles virus.
He coined the name "rubella" (from the Latin word, meaning "little red") in 1866. [46] [49] [50] [51] It was formally recognised as an individual entity in 1881, at the International Congress of Medicine in London. [52] In 1914, Alfred Fabian Hess theorised that rubella was caused by a virus, based on work with monkeys. [53]
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DI Diabetes insipidus: DIC Disseminated intravascular coagulation: DID Dissociative Identity Disorder: DiG DiGeorge syndrome: DISH Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis: DJD Degenerative joint disease: DLB Dementia with Lewy bodies: DM Diabetes mellitus: DMD Duchenne muscular dystrophy: DP
Media type: Optical disc: Encoding: Digital ()Capacity: 4.38 GiB (4.7 GB) single layer and hybrid 7.92 GiB (8.5 GB) dual layer: Read mechanism: 650 nm laser (780 nm for the CD layer of a hybrid disc)
A word in this context is the same as in the context of speech. Research done in 2012 [ 13 ] measured the speed at which subjects read a text aloud, and found the typical range of speeds across 17 different languages to be 184±29 wpm or 863±234 characters per minute.