PAROTIS
\paɹˈə͡ʊtiz], \paɹˈəʊtiz], \p_a_ɹ_ˈəʊ_t_i_z]\
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Parotide, is the name of a tumour seated under the ear; which is reddish, hard, and attended with obtuse pain; the progress to suppuration being slow and difficult. Sometimes it is of a malignant character, sloughing, and long protracted. Some French pathologists restrict the term parotide to symptomatic parotitis- as to that which occurs in plague; whilst they apply the terms Oreillous or Ourles, Parotoncies, to Cynanche parotidaea or Mumps.
By Robley Dunglison
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