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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
When the vital processes are greatly impaired by the primary disease, the onset of the parotitis, trifling in itself, may prove sufficient to determine a fatal result.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
When metastasis occurs, the return of fever calls for the same general treatment as in the early stage of parotitis.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Virchow regards all cases of parotitis as the result of an extension of a more or less malignant catarrh originally affecting the gland-ducts.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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