mumps
腮腺炎,流行性腮腺炎,痄腮,腮腺癌
Definitions
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Pathology.
- : 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.
Examples
The measles, mumps and rubella vaccine is required for most schoolchildren, and its protection usually lasts a lifetime.
Before 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.
The previous record for developing a vaccine is four years for mumps and that was more than five decades ago.
Vaccines for measles, mumps and tuberculosis are examples of live attenuated virus vaccines.
It is the family of man—because where measles and mumps and pertussis are concerned, we are all connected.
Mumps can be a serious and a very painful disease and it is infectious to a marked degree.
One evening, he saw her again in the theatre with 'Mumps,' as she called her husband.
She laughed and called to Mumps to come and unfasten her veil.
One is called away in the middle of a dance to a difficult case of—of mumps or something, and—well, there you are.
It was like toothache or mumps or chicken-pox, an ignoble, complaint of which one is ashamed, but before which one is helpless.