Caput, a Latin word meaning literally head and by metonymy top, has been borrowed in a variety of English words, including capital, captain, and decapitate. The surname Caputo, common in the Campania region of Italy, comes from the appellation used by some Roman military generals. A variant form has surfaced more recently in the title Capo (or Caporegime), the head of La Cosa Nostra.
Mumps. Mumps is a contagious disease that is caused by the mumps virus. Mumps typically starts with a few days of fever, headache, muscle aches, tiredness, and loss of appetite, and is followed by swelling of salivary glands.Anyone who is not immune from either previous mumps infection of from vaccination can get mumps.umps. Mumps is a contagious disease that is caused by the mumps virus. Mumps typically starts with a few days of fever, headache, muscle aches, tiredness, and loss of appetite, and is followed by swelling of salivary glands.
Mumps is the most common cause of non-suppurative acute sialadenitis; 85% of cases occur in children younger than 15 years.4 The disease is highly contagious and spreads by airborne droplets from salivary, nasal, and urinary secretions.