When the parotid is affected the condition tends to be bilateral and there is some constitutional disturbance.
The parotid duct may be divided and a salivary fistula result.
It usually begins in the lymph glands within the capsule of the parotid or submaxillary, and spreads thence to the salivary gland tissue.
Suppurative parotitis may be due to direct spread of infection from the mouth along the parotid duct, or to extension of suppurative processes from the temporo-mandibular joint, the jaw, or a lymph gland.
A parotid fistula, although it may continue to discharge for weeks, or even for months, usually closes spontaneously.
Endotheliomas, or mixed tumours, similar to those met with in the parotid gland, also occur in young subjects, and grow in the submucous tissue of the soft palate, usually to one side of the middle line.
A salivary fistula may occur in relation to the glandular substance of the parotid or in relation to the duct.
The nerve may be injured also in the course of operations on the mastoid or middle ear, or in the removal of tumours or glands in the parotid region.
The parotid gland is swollen and tender, there is pain on attempting to open the mouth, difficulty in swallowing, and dribbling of saliva.
Inflammation of the parotid gland may be non-suppurative or suppurative.
Recurrent enlargement of the parotid and submaxillary glands, as well as of the lachrymal glands, is occasionally met with in adults, and was first described by Mikulicz.
Mixed Tumour of the Parotid of over twenty years' duration.
Several lymph glands--pre-auricular--lie inside the capsule of the parotid just in front of the ear.
Resembling the parotid gland; -- applied especially to cutaneous glandular elevations above the ear in many toads and frogs.
Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the parotid gland.
A specific infectious febrile disorder characterized by a nonsuppurative inflammation of the parotid glands; epidemic or infectious parotitis.
Matas presented the photograph of a negress having an enormous fibroma growing from the left parotid region; and there is a photograph of a similar case in the Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians, Philadelphia.
One of the most frequent of the fibro-cartilaginous tumors is the "mixed cartilaginous" tumor of Paget, which grows in the interstitial tissues of the parotid gland, and sometimes attains enormous size.
The parotid region showed signs of a beard and she had hair on her upper lip.
Sometimes abscess and gangrene of the inflamed parotid gland occur.
Swelling and inflammation of the parotid gland also occur from injury; and as a complication of other diseases, as scarlet fever, typhoid fever, etc.
They belong to the salivary glands; that is, they manufacture saliva, and each parotid gland has a duct through which it pours the saliva into the mouth.
When the parotid glands, either one or both, are inflamed, the testicles or ovaries are also liable to be attacked by inflammation.
Parotitis is an inflammation of the parotid glands.
The parotid glands are situated, one on each side, immediately in front and below the external ear, and they are between one-half and one ounce in weight.
Inflammation of the parotid gland, which is situated under the ear.
In the horse it is attached to the angle of the lower jaw by a tendon, which an aponeurosis that passes under the parotid gland binds to the mastoido-humeral muscle and the mastoid process.
Its posterior border is in relation with the parotid gland (Fig.
Situated between the two other muscles of the same group, it proceeds, after having covered the superior extremity of the parotid gland, to be inserted into the external part of the base of the concha.
The parotid and submaxillary glands were often enlarged, sometimes suppurating or sloughing.
Swelling of the face and throat was also seldom recovered from; in such cases that did well, the maxillary and parotidglands would remain swollen for some time.
The parotid abscesses burst, and discharged a copious acrid, corrosive pus by the nostrils, ears and throat, for the space of thirty days, during which the patients gradually got well.
Many other children had these ulcerations behind the ears, sometimes with swelling of the parotid and sublingual glands.
Sometimes the parotid and submaxillary glands were inflamed; petechiae were absent[311].
He had been but a very short time at Amsterdam, when he made the discovery to which his name has ever since been attached, that of the duct of the parotid gland.
As a matter of fact, the function of the parotid gland was not well understood at this time.
This scientist was Nicholas Stensen, the discoverer of the duct of the parotid gland, which conducts saliva into the mouth, and the founder, in the truest sense of the word, of the modern science of geology.
And if the parotid do become the seat of carcinoma or medullary sarcoma, it is impossible to remove it with either safety or advantage.
Concretions also form, though very rarely, in the extremity of the parotid duct, and are attended with like inconvenience; of this I have seen only two cases.
The parotid is displaced, and almost entirely absorbed, by the pressure of tumours growing out of the lymphatic glands which are lodged on its anterior surface.
Division of the parotid duct, or wound of the gland itself, is occasionally followed by the formation of a fistulous aperture, discharging saliva over the cheek.
Externally, there is scarlet redness of the neck below the mastoid process, throbbing of the carotids, the neck feels tired, the head heavy and the parotid glands are swollen and painful.
Also the parotid gland on the same side became seriously affected, swoll considerably and looked as if the ear might be endangered.
On the fifth day the ulcerating gland burst outside and the parotid gland became relieved.
This compress should be large enough to cover the whole of the throat and part of the chest; it should closely fit to the jaw, and reach as far up as the ear to protect the submaxillary and parotid glands located there.
Defn: Resembling the parotid gland; -- applied especially to cutaneous glandular elevations above the ear in many toads and frogs.
Defn: A specific infectious febrile disorder characterized by a nonsuppurative inflammation of the parotid glands; epidemic or infectious parotitis.
That from the parotid gland, on the contrary, is thin and watery, easily penetrates substances taken into the mouth, and thereby favours their assimilation; while the saliva from the submaxillary gland is of a nature between these two.
The varying of the parotid secretion with the nature of the food taken, is considered by M.
The parts endangered in surgical operations on the parotid and submaxillary glands, &c.
Parotid gland, sheathed over by the cervical fascia.
Masseter muscle, crossed by the parotid duct, and some fibres of platysma.
Whether the diseased parotid gland itself or a lymphatic body lying in connexion with it, be the subject of operation, it seldom happens that the temporo-maxillary branch of the external carotid, F, escapes the knife.
The first symptom of actual attack is a peculiar slight stitch-like pain in one parotid region, usually the left.
The lymphatics, veins, and nerves traversing the parotid are affected by the suppuration in the gland.
In some epidemics of cholera suppuration of the parotid gland is occasionally observed, while in others it may be entirely absent.
The acute onset and course of mumps are the points of distinction between it and morbid growths, or the very rare condition of chronic hypertrophy of the parotid gland.
The rapid return of the testicle to its natural size and shape shows that, as in the parotid glands, the inflammation does not extend beyond the stage of serous exudation.
The salivary glands--and especially theparotid gland--are very apt to be affected by this inflammatory swelling.
When the metastatic inflammation which occasionally appears in the thyroid andparotid glands during the course of this disease terminates in the formation of pus, this should be speedily evacuated.
Occasionally the parotidglands become enlarged and painful, and sometimes a measly or roseolous eruption appears upon the skin.
The course is usually rapid, the abscess pointing on the fourth or fifth day after the appearance of the parotid tumor; occasionally, however, the inflammatory process is much slower, extending over a period of several weeks.
The patient is pale and languid, has slight rigors, pains in the breast and head, and loss of appetite; later, local pain in the parotid region on moving the jaws or on taking acid liquids into the mouth.
The two parotid glands at the age of one month weigh only thirty-four grains.
In one case that resulted fatally the secondary diarrhoea suddenly ceased and the parotid swelling reappeared.
Several cases are on record pointing to the possibility of a metastasis of mumps from the parotid gland to the pancreas.
The parotid is situated on the side of the face in front of the ear.
Herein is to be found the explanation of the fact that the non-poisonous snakes, although destitute of organs of inoculation, possess supralabial or parotid glands which produce venomous saliva.
Toad-venom was prepared by Phisalix and Bertrand in the following manner: Holding the head of one of these batrachians under water, they expressed the contents of the parotid glands with the fingers or with a pair of forceps.
In the poison-cell of Vipera aspis, and in the serous cell of the parotid glands of Tropidonotus natrix (Grass Snake) the venogen is elaborated chiefly in granular form.
Lateral view of the head of Tantalophis discolor (Guenther), showing the position and relative size of the parotid gland.
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