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Definition of Epidemic parotitis
1. Noun. An acute contagious viral disease characterized by fever and by swelling of the parotid glands.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Epidemic Parotitis
Literary usage of Epidemic parotitis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"epidemic parotitis (Mumps) Mumps is an acute epidemic disease, characterized by
swelling and non-suppurative inflammation of both parotid elands, ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"It is of no value in the diagnosis between the tuberculous and the cerebro- spinal
forms. Acute Hemorrhagic Nephritis following epidemic parotitis in a ..."
3. The Diseases of Children: A Work for the Practising Physician by Meinhard von Pfaundler, Arthur Schlossmann (1908)
"epidemic parotitis manifests itself in so striking a manner that neither the
early period of its first accurate description (Hippocrates) nor the numerous ..."
4. The Diagnostics of internal medicine: A Clinical Treatise Upon the by Glentworth Reeve Butler (1909)
"X. epidemic parotitis (MUMPS) Symptoms.—After an incubation of 2 to 3 weeks there
is lassitude, with fever (rarely above 101°), and pain under one (usually ..."
5. The Prophylaxis and Treatment of Internal Disease: Designed for the Use of by Frederick Forchheimer (1910)
"X. epidemic parotitis (Mumps) PROPHYLAXIS Mumps is looked upon as a disease of
very little importance. From the point of view of mortality alone there is ..."
6. Surgery and diseases of the mouth and jaws: A Practical Treatise on the by Vilray Papin Blair (1917)
"epidemic parotitis (MUMPS). Although commonly called parotitis, the disease often
affects the other salivary glands and may even affect these without ..."
7. A Text-book Upon the Pathogenic Bacteria: For Students of Medicine and by Joseph McFarland (1903)
"MUMPS, OR epidemic parotitis. THIS epidemic, infectious disease of childhood,
characterized by painful inflammatory enlargement of the parotid and ..."
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