enteric fever

American  

noun

Pathology.

1. typhoid.

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enteric fever British  

noun

1. another name for typhoid fever

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Etymology

Origin of enteric fever

First recorded in 1865–70

Example Sentences

The strains infecting the farmers, who lived 5500 to 1600 years ago, include the progenitor of paratyphi C, a strain that causes a deadly form of enteric fever similar to typhoid fever today.

From Science Magazine • Feb. 24, 2020

A competing theory holds that he actually died of enteric fever that he got from the White House water, which at the time was vulnerable to Washington's untreated sewage.

From BBC • Aug. 1, 2017

Not long after his inauguration in 1841, 68-year-old William Henry Harrison caught a cold that developed into pneumonia, according to his doctor, though he may have actually contracted enteric fever.

From The Guardian • Sep. 11, 2016

Despite contracting enteric fever and pneumonia in London, Baker had battled through the qualifying rounds – including three fights in one day – but was judged to have lost to Douglas on a disputed decision.

From The Guardian • Dec. 11, 2015

After that we had a letter from the lady nurse of the Ramleh Hospital, in Egypt, to say that the poor boy had suffered a third relapse of enteric fever.

From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson