PAROTITIS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inflammation of one or both parotid glands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("parotitis" is a kind of...):

inflammation; redness; rubor (a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat)

Holonyms ("parotitis" is a part of...):

epidemic parotitis; mumps (an acute contagious viral disease characterized by fever and by swelling of the parotid glands)

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