epidemic parotitis

n (Pathology) another name for mumps

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epidemic parotitis - an acute contagious viral disease characterized by fever and by swelling of the parotid glandsmumpsinfectious disease - a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contactparotitis - inflammation of one or both parotid glands

Epidemic parotitis

parotitis

[par″o-ti´tis] inflammation of the parotid gland.contagious parotitis (epidemic parotitis) mumps.

mumps

(mŭmps), 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 testis, ovary, pancreas, or meninges. Synonym(s): epidemic parotitis [dialectic Eng. mump, a lump or bump]

ep·i·dem·ic pa·rot·i·di·tis

, epidemic parotitis (ep'i-dem'ik pă-rot'i-dī'tis, par-ō-tītis) An acute infectious and contagious disease caused by a paramyxovirus and characterized by fever, inflammation and swelling of the parotid gland, and sometimes of other salivary glands, and occasionally by inflammation of the testis, ovary, pancreas, or meninges.
Synonym(s): mumps.