mumps
an infectious disease characterized by inflammatory swelling of the parotid and usually other salivary glands, and sometimes by inflammation of the testes or ovaries, caused by a paramyxovirus.
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How to use mumps in a sentence
The measles, mumps and rubella vaccine is required for most schoolchildren, and its protection usually lasts a lifetime.
We May Never Eliminate COVID-19. But We Can Learn to Live With It | Jamie Ducharme | February 4, 2021 | TimeBefore that, the fastest vaccine to receive FDA approval in the US was the mumps vaccine, which took four years.
The measles, mumps and rubella vaccine doesn’t work in babies under a year old.
What kids need to know about getting a COVID-19 shot | Sheila Mulrooney Eldred | January 7, 2021 | Science News For StudentsThe previous record for developing a vaccine is four years for mumps and that was more than five decades ago.
Liberal, Educated … and Anti-Vaxxer: Pandemic Births New Vaccine Doubters | Charu Kasturi | August 25, 2020 | OzyVaccines for measles, mumps and tuberculosis are examples of live attenuated virus vaccines.
A COVID-19 vaccine may come soon. Will the blistering pace backfire? | Tina Hesman Saey | July 10, 2020 | Science News
It is the family of man—because where measles and mumps and pertussis are concerned, we are all connected.
Colorado’s Anti-Anti-Vaxxer Bill Gets Watered Down | Kent Sepkowitz | April 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTmumps can be a serious and a very painful disease and it is infectious to a marked degree.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin MalleyOne evening, he saw her again in the theatre with 'mumps,' as she called her husband.
The Child of Pleasure | Gabriele D'AnnunzioShe laughed and called to mumps to come and unfasten her veil.
The Child of Pleasure | Gabriele D'AnnunzioOne is called away in the middle of a dance to a difficult case of—of mumps or something, and—well, there you are.
Happy Days | Alan Alexander MilneIt was like toothache or mumps or chicken-pox, an ignoble, complaint of which one is ashamed, but before which one is helpless.
The Honorable Percival | Alice Hegan Rice
British Dictionary definitions for mumps
/ (mʌmps) /
(functioning as singular or plural) an acute contagious viral disease of the parotid salivary glands, characterized by swelling of the affected parts, fever, and pain beneath the ear: usually affects children: Also called: epidemic parotitis
Origin of mumps
1Derived forms of mumps
- mumpish, adjective
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Scientific definitions for mumps
[ mŭmps ]
An infectious disease caused by a virus of the family Paramyxoviridae and the genus Rubulavirus, characterized by swelling of the salivary glands, especially the parotid glands, and sometimes of the pancreas, testes, or ovaries. Vaccinations, usually given in early childhood, confer immunity to mumps.
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Cultural definitions for mumps
An acute and contagious disease marked by fever and inflammation of the salivary glands. Caused by a virus, mumps is normally a childhood disease that passes with no aftereffects.
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