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Lumps vs Mumps - What's the difference?

lumps | mumps |

As nouns the difference between lumps and mumps

is that lumps is plural of lang=en while mumps is a contagious disease caused by the species: Mumps virus of the genus genus: Rubulavirus, mostly occurring in childhood, which causes swelling of glands in the face and neck.

As an acronym MUMPS is

massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programing System; a programming language (and database) developed originally to be specifically for hierarchically arranged records, such as medical records.

As a verb mumps is

third-person singular of mump.

lumps

English

Noun

(head)
  • (informal) A beating or verbal abuse.
    • He's taken his lumps over the years.
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    mumps

    English

    Acronym

    (Acronym) (head)
  • Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programing System; a programming language (and database) developed originally to be specifically for hierarchically arranged records, such as medical records.

    • See also

    * VistA * OpenVistA * * ISM *

    External links

    * (wikipedia "MUMPS") * http://www.va.gov/VistA/ The VA Comprehensive Electronic Health Record System written in MUMPS * Hardhats.org The Support Organization for VistA * Medsphere and OpenVistA Group Supporting Open Source VistA * Intersystems Corporation's Caché Commercial MUMPS Language Vendor * GT.M - Greystone Technology MUMPS Open Source MUMPS on Linux/Unix, Other OS Commercially Available * Another open implementation of MUMPS Reference Project for all Open MUMPS on SourceForge * The FreeM project * Ed de Moel's MUMPS by Example MUMPS Language Quick Reference Online (Free)