Collocations for "mumps"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "mumps" in context.
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mumps
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- [a case, an outbreak, an epidemic] of the mumps
- [has, got] a case of the mumps
- has come down with the mumps
- [get, have] a vaccine [for, against] (the) mumps
- had the mumps as a [child, teenager]
- a swollen [mouth, neck] from mumps
- got the mumps during [elementary, high] school
- caught the mumps from a [classmate, cousin, friend]
- mumps can trigger other [infections, diseases]
- childhood diseases like mumps and [measles, rubella]
- a mumps [outbreak, virus, epidemic]
- get a mumps [vaccine, vaccination]