parotitis Path.
(pærəʊˈtaɪtɪs)
[irreg. for parotiditis, f. prec.: see -itis.]
Inflammation of the parotid gland, or of neighbouring structures; usually constituting the disease called mumps. Hence parotitic (-ˈtɪtɪk) a., pertaining to or affected with parotitis.
| 1822 Good Study Med. II. 337 In advanced life parotitis is sometimes apt to run into a chronic form. 1857 Mayne Expos. Lex., Parotitic. 1880 J. W. Legg Bile 469 Such symptoms as..a parotitis, and injection of the conjunctivæ. 1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 358 Though it [i.e. Mumps] is called Parotitis, the other salivary glands as well as the parotid are usually affected. |