EGAVE

mumps

About 0.85 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A contagious disease caused by the Mumps virus of the genus Rubulavirus, mostly occurring in childhood, which causes swelling of glands in the face and neck.
  2. noun A gloomy or sullen silence.
  3. verb third-person singular simple present indicative of mump
  4. noun plural of mump

Similar words

epidemic parotitis measles rubella molluscum contagiosum rubulavirus german measles morbilli hard measles molluscum monkeypox

Often followed by

virus and is vaccine or in orchitis infection are

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