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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
Temporary paralysis may result from inflammatory conditions such as parotitis, or from blows or pressure over the nerve, for example by the forceps in delivery.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
This fever is separated from that of the parotitis by an interval of two or three days.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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
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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