parotitis

American  

[par-uh-tahy-tis] / ˌpær əˈtaɪ tɪs /

Also parotiditis

noun

Pathology.

1. inflammation of a parotid.

2. mumps.

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parotitis British  

/ pəˌrɒtɪˈdaɪtɪs, ˌpærəˈtɪtɪk, ˌpærəˈtaɪtɪs, pəˌrɒtɪˈdɪtɪk /

noun

1. inflammation of the parotid gland See also mumps

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Other Word Forms

• parotitic adjective

Etymology

Origin of parotitis

First recorded in 1815–25; parot(id) + -itis

Example Sentences

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

Here, also, belong croupous pneumonia, the allied disease erysipelas, certain puerperal processes, and finally, parotitis epidemica, or mumps.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 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

Is this a reference to the septic parotitis not unfrequently seen in low fevers?

From Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century by Handerson, Henry Ebenezer

Suppurative parotitis may be due to direct spread of infection from the mouth along the parotid duct, or to extension of suppurative processes from the temporo-mandibular joint, the jaw, or a lymph gland.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander