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MMRV

MMRV is the initialism of mumps.

MMRV is the ellipsis of MMRV vaccine.

Meaning of mumps

Noun

mumps pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) A contagious disease caused by the Mumps virus of the genus Rubulavirus, mostly occurring in childhood, which causes swelling of glands in the face and neck.
    • At issue is the so-called MMR vaccine, which immunizes children against measles, mumps and rubella, three potentially deadly diseases that were once common and have been mostly wiped out.2002 February 10, Sarah Lyall, “Britain Tries to Quell Fear Over Vaccine for Children”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 14 Feb 2021
  2. (dated, plural, plural-only) A gloomy or sullen silence.

Forms of MMRV

pluralMMRVs

Questions about MMRV

What is MMRV the initialism of?
MMRV is the initialism of mumps.

Words near MMRV in the dictionary

  1. MMR vaccine
  2. MMR vaccines
  3. MMRCS
  4. MMRDA
  5. MMRs
  6. MMRV
  7. MMS
  8. MMSE
  9. MMSEs
  10. MMSS3
  11. MMSU

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Adapted from Wiktionary: MMRV (page history and authors); mumps (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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