[
US
/ˈməmps/
]
[ UK /mˈʌmps/ ]
[ UK /mˈʌmps/ ]
NOUN
- an acute contagious viral disease characterized by fever and by swelling of the parotid glands
How To Use mumps In A Sentence
- I Googled "mumpsimus" after reading this story b/c I thought it'd be a better name for my blog than "farragos". In a Name
- Measles, mumps and rubella are unpleasant diseases and an epidemic in this country would be disastrous.
- Her mother Mandy, 38, has now urged all parents to have their children vaccinated with the MMR jab, which protects children against measles, mumps and rubella.
- Nobody ever gets shingles or quinsy, or mumps in a novel.
- Now when I was shut up in my room with the mumps was the time to begin The French Revolution. In the days of my youth when I was a student in the University of Virginia, 1888-1893.
- HIV belongs to a group of viruses known as "enveloped" viruses, which also includes influenza, mumps, measles, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, Ebola and SARS. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
- Complications of mumps include meningitis, encephalitis and deafness.
- I just don't see anything cute or cuddly about a mumpsimus or a bigot; I've spent too much of my life having to deal with real people like that.
- It said evidence pointed overwhelmingly to MMR as the most effective and safest way of protecting children from measles, mumps and rubella.
- His {565} own anecdote of the old priest who, having the misprint "mumpsimus" for The Age of the Reformation