Parotid glands

[puh-rot-id]

pa·rot·id

[puh-rot-id] Anatomy
noun
1.
Also called parotid gland. a salivary gland situated at the base of each ear.
adjective
2.
of, pertaining to, or situated near either parotid.

00:10

00:09

00:08

00:07

00:06

00:05

00:04

00:03

00:02

00:01

Parotid_glands is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

Origin:
1680–90; < Neo-Latin parōtid- (stem of parōtis) parotid gland; Latin: tumor near the ear < Greek parōtís. See par-, oto-

pa·rot·i·de·an, adjective
post·pa·rot·id, adjective
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source Link To Parotid_glands
Dictionary.com, LLC. Copyright © 2012. All rights reserved.
  • Please Login or Sign Up to use the Recent Searches feature