mumps
IPA: mˈʌmps
noun
- (pathology) 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.
- (dated) A gloomy or sullen silence.
- Acronym of Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System; a programming language (and database) developed originally to be specifically for hierarchically arranged records, such as medical records.
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Examples of "mumps" in Sentences
- For example the mumps page is a mess.
- Mumps can be prevented by immunization.
- There is no specific treatment for mumps.
- In MUMPS every array is an associative array.
- This is the Mumps page, not the Hepatitis page.
- Mumpsvax is a mumps vaccine made of mumps virus.
- MUMPS is a hierarchical database not relational.
- I have experience with a mumps database and mumps programmers.
- Measles is the name of the virus and the disease, same with mumps.
- Mumps of the salivary glands is a viral infection of the parotid glands.