{"id":65,"date":"2005-09-10T23:06:49","date_gmt":"2005-09-10T14:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2005-09-10\/65"},"modified":"2005-09-12T11:06:34","modified_gmt":"2005-09-12T02:06:34","slug":"new-words-like-salivary-gland-and-sparrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2005-09-10\/65","title":{"rendered":"New words, like “salivary gland” and “sparrow”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n

I learned some new words today:<\/p>\n\n
\u553e\u6db2\u817a<\/span><\/td>daekisen<\/i><\/td>salivary gland<\/b><\/td><\/tr>\n
\u304a\u591a\u798f\u98a8\u90aa<\/span><\/td>otafukukaze<\/i><\/td>mumps<\/b><\/td><\/tr>\n
\u96c0<\/td>suzume<\/i><\/td>sparrow<\/b><\/td><\/tr>\n
\u8757\u866b<\/span><\/td>batta<\/i><\/td>grasshopper<\/b><\/td><\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n

The first two I learned because one side of Anthony's face was swollen\nand painful this morning, as if a balloon<\/span> under his ear was slightly\ninflated. That's apparently a classic<\/span> symptom of mumps, as the salivary\nglands enlarge (so I find<\/span> out during this continuing-education class known\nas “parenthood”).<\/p>\n\n \n\n

Anthony has had all of his US immunizations, which include MMR<\/a> (measles<\/a>, mumps<\/a>, rubella<\/a>) but\napparently (according to our doctor here) that even those immunized can\ncontract mumps over and over, if you seem prone to it. That doesn't seem\ntoo likely though, considering that the US Center for\nDisease Control<\/a> notes that only 231 cases of mumps were reported in the\nentire United States during all of 2003.<\/p>\n\n

Of course, one must consider that the mumps virus here in Japan is\nperhaps different than the one in America. Or, what is translated as\n“mumps” is not quite the same thing to begin with. In any case<\/span>,\nwhat is translated as “mumps” is common in Japan. The family<\/span> that just moved into the house next to our condo (whose windows face ours)\nstopped by in the morning to make formal greetings, and when I commented<\/span>\nthat Anthony's face seemed swollen, the wife (a mother<\/span> of two) said\n“oh, it looks like mumps”. Her two kids<\/span> had it last year. The doctor<\/span> we saw later in the morning said that mumps is going around now.<\/p>\n\n

I talked to my (newly\npregnant<\/a>) ER-nurse sister, who has never seen a case<\/span> of mumps in her\n15+-year professional life (but in the ER, would not likely see them\nanyway). Of course, it's hard to make any kind of diagnosis based on a\nconcerned<\/span> dad's description over the phone, but one thing that sprang to\nmind is that if he had an obstruction of the salivary gland, the swelling\nwould become pronounced right after having something sour (e.g. a\nlemon<\/span>-head candy). In adults, she's seen sudden swelling the size of an egg\n(“sudden” meaning within a few<\/span> seconds).<\/p>\n\n

I gave Anthony some ume<\/i> (very tart plumb), and the swelling\nseemed to increase, but it was hard to tell, since it was already fairly\nswollen. Over the course of the day, the swelling seemed to abate until the\nevening when we put dinner in front of him, it swelled again and he cried\nfrom the pain. I did some<\/span> Internet research (since, you know, if you read\nit on the Internet it must be fact) and it seems that such a reaction<\/span> could\nbe from any type of salivary-gland infection (viral, such as mumps, or\nbacterial), or from a simple<\/span> kidney-stone-like blockage.<\/p>\n\n

At this point we can't do much more than wait to see how it progresses. He had a<\/span> slight fever, which also seems to have abated. Also, the skin\nbehind the ear is red, which was the most interesting thing to the doctor\n(since such redness is not associated with mumps). Perhaps this indicates a\nbacterial<\/span> infection?\n\n<\/p>

The other two words I learned during Anthony's play. He was having<\/span>\ncookie time with Mommy, and he was making shapes with his two cookies on\nthe plate. One was a<\/span> snowman, and after a bite,<\/span> it in some way became a\nsparrow.<\/span> Later, he was hopping around like a frog,<\/span> but it turns out that it\nwasn't like a frog,<\/span> but a grasshopper.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I learned some new words today:<\/p> \u553e\u6db2\u817adaekisensalivary gland<\/b> \u304a\u591a\u798f\u98a8\u90aaotafukukazemumps<\/b> \u96c0suzumesparrow<\/b> \u8757\u866bbattagrasshopper<\/b>

The first two I learned because one side of Anthony's face was swollen and painful this morning, as if a balloon under his ear was slightly inflated. That's apparently a classic symptom of mumps, as the salivary glands enlarge (so I find out during this continuing-education class known as \"parenthood\").<\/p>

Anthony has had all of his US immunizations, which include MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) but apparently (according to our doctor here) that even those immunized can contract mumps over and over, if you seem prone to it. That doesn't [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}