Definitions
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.
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- noun pathology
Inflammation of one or bothparotid 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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Examples
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Mumps is the common name for what is technically called parotitis (or parotiditis).
Woman Her Sex and Love Life William J. Robinson
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Temporary paralysis may result from inflammatory conditions such as parotitis, or from blows or pressure over the nerve, for example by the forceps in delivery.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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Diseases of the salivary glands are rare in infants and children (with the exception of diseases such as parotitis epidemica and cytomegaly) and the therapeutic regimen differs from that in adults.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Maik Ellies 2010
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The vaccine was likely to be associated with benign thrombocytopenic purpura, parotitis, joint and limb complaints, febrile convulsions within two weeks of vaccination and aseptic meningitis (mumps) (Urabe strain-containing MMR).
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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A peek down their throats would disclose evidence of parotitis, not to mention pharyngeal polypi as large as boysenberries.
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Robbins, Tom 1976
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Is this a reference to the septic parotitis not unfrequently seen in low fevers?
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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This may be symptomatic of some inflammatory condition in the vicinity, such as a pyogenic affection of the lower jaw -- for example, that associated with a carious root or an unerupted wisdom tooth, or with parotitis or tonsillitis.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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_Suppurative parotitis_ may be due to direct spread of infection from the mouth along the parotid duct, or to extension of suppurative processes from the temporo-mandibular joint, the jaw, or a lymph gland.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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The _post-operative_ form of parotitis is most frequently met with after laparotomy for such conditions as suppurative appendicitis, perforated gastric ulcer, ovarian cyst, and pyosalpinx.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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The _suppurative_ form may be due either to direct spread of infection from adjacent parts, as, for example, in middle ear disease, suppurative parotitis, or pyogenic affections of the mandible, or it may be part of a general pyæmic infection, as sometimes occurs after exanthematous fevers and in gonorrhœa.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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