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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Inflammation of the parotid glands, as in mumps.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as parotiditis.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) Inflammation of the parotid glands.
  • noun mumps.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun pathology Inflammation of one or both parotid glands.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun inflammation of one or both parotid glands

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