Mumps vs Rubella - What's the difference?
mumps | rubella |
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.
(pathology) A mild disease caused by the infecting the respiratory tract, and characterised by a rash of pink dots, fever and swollen lymph nodes.
In pathology terms the difference between mumps and rubella
is that 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 while rubella is a mild disease caused by the species: Rubella virus infecting the respiratory tract, and characterised by a rash of pink dots, fever and swollen lymph nodes.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.mumps
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(Acronym) (head)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.orgThe Support Organization for VistA *
Medsphere and OpenVistAGroup Supporting Open Source VistA *
Intersystems Corporation's CachéCommercial MUMPS Language Vendor *
GT.M - Greystone Technology MUMPSOpen Source MUMPS on Linux/Unix, Other OS Commercially Available *
Another open implementation of MUMPSReference Project for all Open MUMPS on SourceForge *
The FreeM project*
Ed de Moel's MUMPS by ExampleMUMPS Language Quick Reference Online (Free)