Mumps

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  • noun plural. 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Sullenness; silent displeasure; sulks.
  • noun. A contagious non-suppurative inflammation of the parotid and sometimes of the other salivary glands and of the circumglandular connective tissue; idiopathic parotitis.
  • noun. A drinking game.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Sullenness; silent displeasure; the sulks.
  • noun. A specific infectious febrile disorder characterized by a nonsuppurative inflammation of the parotid glands, and sometimes causing inflammation of the testes or ovaries; also called epidemic parotitis or infectious parotitis. It is caused by infection with a paramyxovirus.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A contagious disease caused by a virus of the genus Rubulavirus, mostly occurring in childhood, which causes swelling of glands in the face and neck.
  • verb. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mump.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an acute contagious viral disease characterized by fever and by swelling of the parotid glands
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    infectious disease  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    bumps  clumps  dumps  jumps  lumps  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    African lethargy  Asiatic cholera  Chagres fever  German measles  Haverhill fever  
    verb-stem
    mump  
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