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paratyphoid
/ ˌpærəˈtaɪfɔɪd /
adjective
- resembling typhoid fever or its causative agent
- of or relating to paratyphoid fever
noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of paratyphoid1
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Example Sentences
A bacillus belonging to the paratyphoid group was isolated from the stools of patients, but not from the dried codfish.
Especially is it true of meat poisoning epidemics that paratyphoid bacilli are found in causal relation with them.
Southwest Germany, for example, seems to harbor paratyphoid bacilli in relatively large numbers.
Typhoid, and what was described as paratyphoid, fevers followed these maladies.
It was directed that before embarkation all troops were to be reinoculated against paratyphoid.
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