typhoidal

[ tahy-foid-l ]

adjective

, Pathology.

1. of, relating to, or resembling typhoid.

Other Words From

• nonty·phoidal adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of typhoidal¹

First recorded in 1880–85; typhoid + -al ¹

Example Sentences

In the typhoidal inflammations are associated those symptoms which are so prominent in the severe varieties of typhoid fever.

From Project Gutenberg

Febrile symptoms, typhoidal in type, in a case of supposed syphilitic sore throat will most likely be indicative of tuberculosis.

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Sometimes it becomes epidemic, and assumes a languid or typhoidal cast,—not Positivism, but Agnosticism.

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