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Origin of parotitis
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After a trip to the ER and several follow-up visits while doctors worked on a diagnosis that turned out to be parotitis, an infection of the glands, Chandler’s bills reached $1,300.
From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2016
The term parotitis is applied to a condition of painful enlargement of one or both parotid glands, inflammatory in nature, acute in its course, and usually subsiding by resolution, but sometimes ending in suppuration.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
These two last cases are not related as being certainly owing to parotitis, but as they might probably have that origin.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
According to Hoffmann,66 16 cases of suppurative parotitis were found at Basle among about 1600 typhoid fever patients, 7 of the 16 ending fatally.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Tuberculosis and actinomycosis may infrequently be characterized by the lodgment of their parasitic causes in the parotid glands, in which case parotitis may be a symptom of either of these diseases.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
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