Mumps

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mumps \Mumps\, n. [Prov. E. mump to be sulky. Cf. {Mump},
     {Mumble}, and {Mum}.]
     1. pl. Sullenness; silent displeasure; the sulks. --Skinner.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. [Prob. so called from the patient's appearance.] (Med.) A


        specific infectious febrile disorder characterized by a
        nonsuppurative inflammation of the parotid glands, and
        sometimes causing inflammation of the testes or ovaries;
        also called {epidemic parotitis} or {infectious
        parotitis}. It is caused by infection with a
        paramyxovirus.
        [1913 Webster +PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mumps
       n : an acute contagious viral disease characterized by fever and
           by swelling of the parotid glands [syn: {epidemic
           parotitis}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  144 Moby Thesaurus words for "mumps":
     African lethargy, Asiatic cholera, Chagres fever, German measles,
     Haverhill fever, acute articular rheumatism, ague, alkali disease,
     amebiasis, amebic dysentery, anthrax, bacillary dysentery,
     bastard measles, black death, black fever, blackwater fever, blahs,
     blue devils, blues, breakbone fever, brucellosis, bubonic plague,
     cachectic fever, cerebral rheumatism, chicken pox, cholera, cowpox,
     dandy fever, deer fly fever, dengue, dengue fever, diphtheria,
     dismals, dods, doldrums, dolefuls, dorts, dumdum fever, dumps,
     dysentery, elephantiasis, encephalitis lethargica, enteric fever,
     erysipelas, famine fever, five-day fever, flu, frambesia, frumps,
     glandular fever, grippe, grumps, hansenosis, hepatitis, herpes,
     herpes simplex, herpes zoster, histoplasmosis, hookworm,
     hydrophobia, infantile paralysis, infectious mononucleosis,
     inflammatory rheumatism, influenza, jail fever, jungle rot,
     kala azar, kissing disease, lepra, leprosy, leptospirosis, loa loa,
     loaiasis, lockjaw, madness, malaria, malarial fever, marsh fever,
     measles, megrims, meningitis, milzbrand, mopes, mulligrubs,
     ornithosis, osteomyelitis, paratyphoid fever, parotitis,
     parrot fever, pertussis, pneumonia, polio, poliomyelitis,
     polyarthritis rheumatism, ponos, pouts, psittacosis, rabbit fever,
     rabies, rat-bite fever, relapsing fever, rheumatic fever,
     rickettsialpox, ringworm, rubella, rubeola, scarlatina,
     scarlet fever, schistosomiasis, septic sore throat, shingles,
     sleeping sickness, sleepy sickness, smallpox, snail fever,
     splenic fever, spotted fever, strep throat, sulks, sullens,
     swamp fever, tetanus, thrush, tinea, trench fever, trench mouth,
     tuberculosis, tularemia, typhoid, typhoid fever, typhus,
     typhus fever, undulant fever, vaccinia, varicella, variola,
     venereal disease, viral dysentery, whooping cough, yaws,
     yellow fever, yellow jack, zona, zoster
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  MUMPS
       Massachusetts general hospital Multi-Programming System
       
       

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  MUMPS
       Multi-User Multi-Programming System ??? (OS, DEC)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  MUMPS
       
           (Or "M") Massachusetts General Hospital Utility
          Multi-Programming System.
       
          A programming language with extensive tools for the support of
          {database management systems}.  MUMPS was originally used for
          medical records and is now widely used where multiple users
          access the same databases simultaneously, e.g. banks, stock
          exchanges, travel agencies, hospitals.
       
          Early MUMPS implementations for {PDP-11} and {IBM PC} were
          complete {operating systems}, as well as programming
          languages, but current-day implementations usually run under a
          normal host {operating system}.
       
          A MUMPS program hardly ever explicitly performs low-level
          operations such as opening a file - there are programming
          constructs in the language that will do so implicitly, and
          most MUMPS programmers are not even aware of the {operating
          system} activity that MUMPS performs.
       
          Syntactically MUMPS has only one data-type: strings.
          Semantically, the language has many data-types: text strings,
          {binary strings}, {floating point} values, {integer} values,
          {Boolean} values.  Interpretation of strings is done inside
          functions, or implicitly while applying mathematical
          {operators}.  Since many operations involve only moving data
          from one location to another, it is faster to just move
          uninterpreted strings.  Of course, when a value is used
          multiple times in the context of arithmetical operations,
          optimised implementations will typically save the numerical
          value of the string.
       
          MUMPS was designed for portability.  Currently, it is possible
          to share the same MUMPS database between radically different
          architectures, because all values are stored as text strings.
          The worst an implementation may have to do is swap pairs of
          bytes.  Such multi-CPU databases are actually in use, some
          offices share databases between {VAX}, {DEC Alpha}, {SUN},
          {IBM PC} and {HP} {workstations}.
       
          Versions of MUMPS are available on practically all {hardware},
          from the smallest ({IBM PC}, {Apple Macintosh}, {Acorn}
          {Archimedes}), to the largest {mainframe}.  MSM ({Micronetics
          Standard MUMPS}) runs on {IBM PC RT} and {R6000}; DSM (Digital
          Standard Mumps) on the {PDP-11}, {VAX}, {DEC Alpha}, and
          {Windows-NT}; {Datatree MUMPS} from {InterSystems} runs on
          {IBM PC}; and {MGlobal MUMPS} on the {Macintosh}.
          Multi-{platform} versions include {M/SQL}, available from
          {InterSystems}, {PFCS}  and {MSM}.
       
          {Greystone Technologies}' GT/M runs on {VAX} and {DEC Alpha}.
          This is a compiler whereas the others are {interpreters}.
          {GT/SQL} is their {SQL} pre-processor.
       
          ISO standard 11756 (1991).  ANSI standard: "MUMPS Language
          Standard", X11.1 (1977, 1984, 1990, 1995?).
       
          The MUMPS User's Group was the {M Technology Association}.
       
          {Usenet} newsgroups: {news:comp.lang.mumps}.
       
          (2003-06-04)