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fifth disease

A mild viral disease occurring mainly in early childhood, characterized by fever, a rosy-red rash on the cheeks that often spreads to the trunk and limbs, and usually arthritis and malaise. Also called erythema infectiosum.

[From its being fifth in frequency of rash-producing childhood diseases.]

fifth disease

(Medicine / Pathology) a mild infectious disease of childhood, caused by a virus, characterized by fever and a red rash spreading from the cheeks to the limbs and trunk Also called slapped-cheek disease Technical name erythema infectiosum

[from its being among the five most common childhood infections]

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fifth disease (redirected from Slapped cheek)

fifth disease
(redirected from Slapped cheek)