| MMR | mass miniature radiography; masseter muscle rigidity; maternal mortality rate; measles-mumps-rubella... |
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| MUMPS | Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System |
| HEV | health and environment; hemagglutinating encephalomyelitis virus; hepatitis E virus; hepato-encephal... |
| SFV | Semliki Forest virus; shipping fever virus; Shope fibroma virus; squirrel fibroma virus |
| FTLB | full-term live birth |
| metastatic mumps | Mumps complicated by involvement of organs other than parotid glands, such as the testis, breast, or pancreas. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| mumps | An infectious acute viral disease affecting the parotid glands. The gonads, meninges and pancreas can also be affected. The causative agent is a paramyxovirus. Humans are the only natural host for this disease. Common symptoms include weakness, fever, sore throat, malaise and puffiness to the cheeks (due to parotid gland swelling). Patients are contagious 1 day prior to the onset of swelling until the swelling is gone. Recovery is generally in 2 weeks. (27 Sep 1997) |
| mumps immunization | The standard MMR vaccine is given to prevent measles, mumps and rubella (german measles). The mmr vaccine is now given in two dosages. The first should be given at12-15 months of age. The second vaccination should be given at 4-6 years (or, alternatively, 11-12 years) of age. most colleges require proof of a second measles or mmr vaccination prior to entrance. Most children should receive mmr vaccinations. Exceptions may include children born with an inability to fight off infection, some children with cancer, on treatment with radiation or drugs for cancer, on long term steroids (cortisone). People with severe allergic reactions to eggs or the drug neomycin should probably avoid the mmr vaccine. Pregnant women should wait until after delivery before being immunised with mmr. People with HIV or aids should normally receive mmr vaccine. Measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines may be administered as individual shots, if necessary, or as a measles-rubella combination. (12 Dec 1998) |
| mumps in pregnancy | It has been stated, we believe erroneously, that mumps is dangerous when contracted during pregnancy. For example, vetter (infect med 14:730-733, 1997), citing a single 1980 article, writes: mumps infection during the first trimester of pregnancy can increase the rate of spontaneous abortion. Congenital anomalies associated with mumps infection during pregnancy include endocardial fibroelastosis; imperforate anus; spina bifida; and auditory, optic, and urogenital deformities. However, shepard in his authorative catalog of teratogenic agents (j hopkins u press, 8th edition, 1995) does not consider that mumps merits inclusion as a proven or even possible teratogenic agent, that is as an agent capable of causing a spontaneous abortion (a miscarriage) or causing congenital malformations (the baby is born with birth defects). Furthermore, mumps does not even warrant mention in smith's recognizable patterns of human malformation (by kl jones, wb saunders co., 5th edition, 1997), a key standard text on dysmorphology (the study of malformations). Based also on our review of the facts available at this time (oct, 1997), we conclude that there is insufficient evidence to label mumps as a particular hazard in pregnancy. (12 Dec 1998) |
| mumps meningoencephalitis | A usually benign nervous system infection arising during the active phase of clinical mumps parotiditis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mumps orchitis | <pathology> A mumps infection that has affected the testicles. Approximately 20-35% of postpubertal males with mumps will develop this complication. (27 Sep 1997) |
| mumps sensitivity test | A skin test for sensitivity to mumps, in which inactivated mumps virus is used as antigen. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mumps skin test antigen | A sterile suspension of killed mumps virus in isotonic sodium chloride solution, used to determine susceptibility to mumps or to confirm previous exposure. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mumps vaccine | A live attenuated virus vaccine of chick embryo origin, used for routine immunization of children and for immunization of adolescents and adults who have not had mumps or been immunised with live mumps vaccine. Children are usually immunised with measles-mumps-rubella combinatiom vaccine. (12 Dec 1998) |
| immunization, mumps | See Immunization, MMR. (12 Dec 1998) |
| bovine virus diarrhoea virus | A virus of the genus Pestivirus, in the family Togaviridae, causing bovine virus diarrhoea; New York, Oregon, and Indiana strains of the virus are recognised. Synonym: mucosal disease virus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| abelson leukaemia virus | A defective murine leukaemia virus capable of transforming lymphoid cells and producing a rapidly progressing lymphoid leukaemia after superinfection with friend, moloney, or rauscher virus. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Abelson murine leukaemia virus | A retrovirus belonging to the Type C retrovirus group subfamily (family Oncovirinae) which is associated with leukaemia and produces in vitro transformation of mouse cells. (05 Mar 2000) |
| adeno-associated virus | <virology> A genus of viruses in the family Parvoviridae which are all defective viruses (unable to replicate by themselves) and depend on the co-infection of their host cell by other, nondefective viruses to help them replicate. (09 Oct 1997) |
| adenoidal-pharyngeal-conjunctival virus | <virology> An icosahedral (20-sided) virus that contains DNA, there are over 40 different adenovirus varieties, some of which cause the common cold. (10 May 1997) |