mumps
see also: MUMPS
Noun
MUMPS
Proper noun
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see also: MUMPS
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.
- French: oreillons
- German: Mumps
- Italian: parotite epidemica, orecchioni
- Portuguese: caxumba
- Russian: зау́шница
- Spanish: paperas, parotiditis
- third-person singular form of mump
- plural form of mump
MUMPS
Proper noun
- 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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