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noun - an acute contagious viral disease characterized by fever and by swelling of the parotid glands
An acute, inflammatory, contagious disease caused by a paramyxovirus and characterized by swelling of the salivary glands, especially the parotids, and sometimes of the pancreas, ovaries, or testes.
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| The first recorded epidemic of this salivary gland-swelling disease was described around 410 B.C. in Greece |
| Childhood viral disease that causes swelling of the parotid glands |
| One of the things the MMR vaccine protects against is this viral infection that causes swelling of the salivary glands |
| This childhood disease is caused by a paramyxovirus that causes the parotid glands to swell up |
| Epidemic parotitis is another name for this common childhood disease |
| This contagious viral disease can occasionally cause sterility in males |
| In 1934 Goodpasture & Johnson isolated the virus that causes this disease of the parotid glands |
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| An acute, inflammatory, contagious disease caused by a paramyxovirus and characterized by swelling of the salivary glands, especially the parotids, and sometimes of the pancreas, ovaries, or testes. This disease, mainly affecting children, can be prevented by vaccination. |
| a contagious and infectious viral disease causing swelling of the parotid salivary glands in the face, and a risk of sterility in adult males. |
| an acute contagious viral disease characterized by fever and by swelling of the parotid glands |
| A contagious and infectious viral disease causing swelling of the parotid salivary glands in the face, and a risk of sterility in adult males. |
| an infectious disease that causes painful swelling in the neck and slight fever: |
| an infectious disease that causes painful swellings in the neck and throat and a fever |
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| Mumps is a viral disease caused by the mumps virus. Initial signs and symptoms often include fever, muscle pain, headache, poor appetite, and feeling tired. This is then usually followed by painful swelling of one or both parotid salivary glands. Symptoms typically occur 16 to 18 days after exposure and resolve after seven to ten days. Symptoms in adults are often more severe than in children. About a third of people have mild or no symptoms. Complications may include meningitis (15 percent), pancreatitis (four percent), inflammation of the heart, permanent deafness, and testicular inflammation which uncommonly results in infertility. Women may develop ovarian swelling but this does not increase the risk of infertility.Mumps is highly contagious and spreads rapidly among people living in close quarters. The virus is transmitted by respiratory droplets or direct contact with an infected person. Only humans get and spread the disease. People are infectious to each other from about seven |