adjective
noun
Other Word Forms
- antityphoid adjective
- pretyphoid adjective
Etymology
Origin of typhoid
Explanation
One of the worst infectious diseases in the world is typhoid. If Salmonella typhosa is in your food or water, you could catch typhoid. Typhoid consists of intestinal inflammation plus ulceration: that means your stomach is going to hurt, and you will probably spend a lot of time in the bathroom (possibly experiencing distress at both ends of your body). Typhoid often occurs in places with poor sanitation.
Vocabulary lists containing typhoid
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Example Sentences
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Suddenly Parton was a single mother of two daughters, mourning the deaths of her husband from typhoid fever and their first daughter, who died of brain fever.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026
“It contributes to ill health, cholera, dysentery, typhoid, water-related diseases, and it contributes to conflicts over water.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 26, 2025
That's because in developing nations like India — where I was born and raised — outbreaks from waterborne diseases like typhoid and cholera are ubiquitous.
From Salon • Dec. 24, 2024
Inorganic chloramines are commonly used to disinfect drinking water to safeguard public health from diseases like cholera and typhoid fever.
From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2024
El Patron’s sisters were carried off by typhoid when they were so small, they couldn’t look over the windowsill—no, not even if they stood on tiptoe.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
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