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typhoid fever

noun

  1. an acute infectious disease characterized by high fever, rose-coloured spots on the chest or abdomen, abdominal pain, and occasionally intestinal bleeding. It is caused by the bacillus Salmonella typhosa ingested with food or water Also calledenteric fever
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typhoid fever

/ foid′ /

  1. A life-threatening infectious disease caused by the bacterium Salmonella typhi and transmitted through contaminated food and water. It is characterized by high fever, intestinal bleeding, diarrhea, and skin rash.


typhoid fever

  1. An acute and highly contagious disease transmitted by food or water contaminated with a kind of bacterium . The disease, which is often fatal, is characterized by high fever, pain in the abdomen , and bleeding in the intestines .


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Word History and Origins

Origin of typhoid fever1

C19: from typhus + -oid ; so called because the symptoms resemble those of typhus
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Example Sentences

Cholera and typhoid fever are transmitted when I ingest contaminated food or drink.

Mary Mallon has an understandable reaction when she receives news that she is carrying typhoid fever.

In some cases, though mostly in the developing world, salmonella can cause typhoid fever.

When applied to the diagnosis of typhoid fever, the phenomenon is known as the Widal reaction.

(b) Acute infectious diseases, especially rheumatism and typhoid fever.

The imprisonment soon told severely upon the health of the Parson, and after a month he was stricken down with typhoid fever.

On the 13th of April, private Pleasant Ricks died in camp of typhoid fever.

About September 10, 1865, I was stricken down with typhoid fever.

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