A contagious viral infection caused by the mumps virus. Symptoms include swollen and tender parotid glands, fever, muscle aches and fatigue. Due to vaccination programs, mumps has become a rare disease.
Acute, inflammatory, contagious disease caused by rubulavirus and characterized by swelling of the salivary glands, especially the parotids, and sometimes of the pancreas, ovaries, or testes; spread by direct contact, airborne droplet nuclei, fomites contaminated by infectious saliva, and perhaps urine.
An acute infectious disease caused by rubulavirus, spread by direct contact, airborne droplet nuclei, fomites contaminated by infectious saliva, and perhaps urine, and usually seen in children under the age of 15, although adults may also be affected. from Dorland, 28th ed)
Mumps is an illness caused by the mumps virus. It starts with
Mumps orchitis
Mumps meningitis
Mumps encephalitis
Mumps pancreatitis
Mumps with other complications
Mumps hepatitis
Mumps myocarditis
Mumps nephritis
Mumps polyneuropathy
Mumps arthritis
Other mumps complications
Mumps without complication