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1. mumps
   Type: Term Pronunciation: mŭmps Definitions: 1. An acute infectious and contagious disease caused by a mumps virus of the genus Rubulavirus and characterized by fever, inflammation and swelling of the parotid gland, and sometimes of other salivary glands, and occasionally by inflammation of the...
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2. MUMPS
   (language) (Or 'M') Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System. A programming language with extensive tools for the support of database management systems. MUMPS was originally used for medical records and is now widely used where multiple users access the same databases simult...
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3. mumps
   [n] - an acute contagious viral disease characterized by fever and by swelling of the parotid glands
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4. MUMPS
   Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System (Programming Language)
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5. mumps
   Mumps is a viral disease characterised by fever, headache, and inflammation of the salivary glands. It may lead to complications such as meningitis. The MMR vaccine can protect against mumps.
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6. Mumps
   Infectious disease. You should not have a vaccination against mumps if you are having chemotherapy as the vaccine is live.
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7. Mumps
   a viral infection that causes inflammation of salivary glands; primarily affects children
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8. Mumps
   An acute infectious disease, caused by a paramyxovirus, and most common in children.
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9. Mumps
   Our Mumps Main Article provides a comprehensive look at the who, what, when and how of Mumps Mumps: An acute (sudden, shortlived) viral illness that usually presents with inflammation of the salivary glands, particularly the parotid glands. A child with mumps often looks like a chipmunk with a full ...
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10. Mumps
    Mumps noun [ Prov. English mump to be sulky. Confer Mump , Mumble , and Mum .] 1. plural Sullenness; silent displeasure; the sulks. Skinner. 2. [ Prob. so called from the patient's appearance.]...
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11. mumps
    An infectious acute viral disease affecting the parotid glands. The gonads, meninges and pancreas can also be affected. The causative agent is a paramyxovirus. Humans are the only natural host for this disease. ... Common symptoms include weakness, fever, sore throat, malaise and puffiness to the ch...
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12. mumps
    epidemic parotitis noun an acute contagious viral disease characterized by fever and by swelling of the parotid glands
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13. mumps
    (mumps) a communicable disease caused by a paramyxovirus, attacking the parotid glands and sometimes other salivary glands. It usually strikes children, but older people can also contract it. Mumps is spread by droplet infection, and has an incubation period of 12 to 26 days. One attack usually gives immunity. The first...
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14. Mumps
    • (n.) A specific infectious febrile disorder characterized by a nonsuppurative inflammation of the parotid glands; epidemic or infectious parotitis. • (n.) Sullenness; silent displeasure; the sulks.
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15. mumps
    acute contagious disease caused by a virus and characterized by inflammatory swelling of the salivary glands. It frequently occurs as an epidemic and ... [7 related articles]
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16. mumps
    mumps (epidemic parotitis), acute contagious viral disease, manifesting itself chiefly in pain and swelling of the salivary glands, especially those at the angle of the jaw. Other symptoms are fever, a general feeling of illness, and pain on chewing or swallowing. Mumps most often affects children b...
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17. Mumps
    Mumps (epidemic parotitis) is an acute, infectious viral disease which attacks the young and consists of a painful inflammation of the salivary glands with swelling along the neck. Mumps is caused by the paramyxovirus, and is spread by droplet or direct contact with infected saliva.
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18. mumps
    Virus infection marked by fever, pain, and swelling of one or both parotid salivary glands (situated in front of the ears). It is usually short-lived in children, although meningitis is a possible complication. In adults the symptoms are more serious and it may cause sterility in men. Mumps is the most common cause of meningitis in children, bu...
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19. MUMPS
    `MUMPS` (`M`assachusetts General Hospital `U`tility `M`ulti-`P`rogramming `S`ystem), or alternatively `M`, is a programming language created in the late 1960s, originally for use in the healthcare industry. It was designed for the production of multi-user database-driven applications. It predates C ...
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20. Mumps
    | ICD9 = | <br> <br> <br> <br> ICDO = | Image = Mumps PHIL 130 lores.jpg | Caption = Child with mumps. | OMIM = | MedlinePlus = 001557 | eMedicineSubj = emerg | eMedicineTopic = 324 | eMedicine_mult = | DiseasesDB = 8449 | MeshID = D009107 | --> `Mumps` (`epidemic parotitis`) is a vir...
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21. MUMPS
    (software) `MUMPS` (`MU`ltifrontal `M`assively `P`arallel sparse direct `S`olver) is a software application for the solution of large sparse systems of linear algebraic equations on distributed memory parallel computers. It was developed in European project PARASOL (1996–1999) by CERFA...
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