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mumps
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Word definitions for mumps in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ All doses of Hib, measles, mumps , rubella, and varicella must be given on or after the first birthday. ▪ An epidemic of measles, mumps or rubella is now possible. ▪ I did get the usual childhood ailments, though, such as mumps ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of contagious disease, c.1600, from plural of mump "a grimace" (1590s), originally a verb, "to whine like a beggar" (1580s), from Dutch mompen "to cheat, deceive," originally probably "to mumble, whine," of imitative origin. The infectious disease ...
Usage examples of mumps.
Wendy just got through, with mumps reduced to twelve six, and the two kinds of measles treated as one.
But World Health Organization officials say the strain of mumps virus that struck last week is unlike any on record.
Thus far, the deadly mumps virus appears to be confined to the squatter area, but local leaders warn the infection could spread despite stringent efforts at quarantine.
Fritz Voekl was sending German medical teams into Kosovo armed with an experimental new mumps vaccine.
He had fallen asleep despite his best intentions in the quiet of that room, thinking of mumps, of killing strains.
VaccuGen mumps scandal--the records of E-mail correspondence between the chancellor and Mian Krucevic confirm his full knowledge and support of the vaccination campaign.
I own, I should not have chosen to figure in your mind as the man with mumps, but so, I see, it is!
I saw David when he was sick with mumps and I patched him up once or twice after rugger.
Gees is investigating something between mumps and murder on this spot.
There may very well have been other infections present that were not detected by her family doctor when Alice suffered mumps at four years of age, infections that could have been the root cause of her condition.
Aunt Emily were to die we could get married at once, and you could come to London and have a laboratory full of test tubes and guinea pigs, and never bother any more about children with mumps and old ladies with livers.
The measles appeared, as did the mumps, but they did not even last a full round.
He has mumps, measles, whooping cough, croup, tonsillitis, diphtheria, scarlet fever, almost as a matter of course.
She is a hoary pandemonium of ills, enlarged glands, mumps, quinsy, bunions, hayfever, bedsores, ringworm, floating kidney, Derbyshire neck, warts, bilious attacks, gallstones, cold feet, varicose veins.
After what he'd seen on the post-Event mainland with influenza, mumps, and chicken pox, he believed every word of it.