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PAROTITIS
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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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