typhoid

[tahy-foid]Pathology

noun

Also called typhoid fever. an infectious, often fatal, febrile disease, usually of the summer months, characterized by intestinal inflammation and ulceration, caused by the typhoid bacillus, which is usually introduced with food or drink.

adjective

resembling typhus; typhous.

typhoidal.

Origin of typhoid

First recorded in 1790–1800; typh(us) + -oid

Related formsan·ti·ty·phoid, adjectivepre·ty·phoid, adjective

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Examples from the Web for typhoid

Contemporary Examples of typhoid

Where better to test cultures of anthrax, typhoid, plague and tularemia than on an island in a sea in the middle of the desert?
The Aral Sea's Disappearing Act
Anna Nemtsova
October 4, 2014
Cholera and typhoid fever are transmitted when I ingest contaminated food or drink.
The CDC Was Wrong About How to Stop Ebola
Kent Sepkowitz
October 1, 2014
Cholera and typhoid were rampant and overseers used pick handles to physically force miners into the shafts.
Turkey's Tragedy and History's Worst Mining Accidents
Emily Shire
May 14, 2014
Imagine clicking on the TV and catching a show called Cooking with Typhoid Mary.
Among the True Believers
John Avlon
February 27, 2009

Historical Examples of typhoid

When I last wrote, on the Somme in 1915, I was sickening with typhoid fever.
Ballads of a Bohemian
Robert W. Service
The doctor pronounced it typhoid and he was with us for nine weeks.
The Harbor
Ernest Poole
I was passing on my way to see a poor labourer with typhoid.
The Stark Munro Letters
J. Stark Munro
And did not he die of typhoid within two weeks of committing that foolishness?
The Golden Woman
Ridgwell Cullum
Typhoid and malarial cases, sent in from the lines, were also here in abundance.
The Long Roll
Mary Johnston

British Dictionary definitions for typhoid

typhoid

adjective Also: typhoidal

resembling typhus

noun

short for typhoid fever

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Word Origin and History for typhoid

adj.

1800, literally "resembling typhus," from typhus + suffix from Greek -oeides "like," from eidos "form, shape" (see -oid). The noun is from 1861, a shortened form of typhoid fever (1845), so called because it was originally thought to be a variety of typhus. Typhoid Mary (1909) was Mary Mallon (d.1938), a typhoid carrier who worked as a cook and became notorious after it was learned she had unwittingly infected hundreds in U.S.

Medicine definitions for typhoid

typhoid

[tī′foid′]

n.

Typhoid fever.

adj.

Of, relating to, or resembling typhoid fever.