Typhoid Definition

tīfoid
typhoidal
noun
Any typhuslike disorder.
Webster's New World
Typhoid fever.
American Heritage Medicine
An acute infectious disease caused by a bacillus (Salmonella typhi) and acquired by ingesting food or water contaminated by excreta: it was formerly considered a form of typhus and is characterized by fever, intestinal disorders, etc.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
adjective
Of, relating to, or resembling typhoid fever.
American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Typhoid

Noun

Singular:
typhoid
Plural:
typhoids

Origin of Typhoid

  • N., short for typhoid fever Adj., typh(us) –oid (from its resemblance to typhus)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Typhoid Sentence Examples

  • Typhoid and pulmonary diseases are common.

  • Cultures of the typhoid organism planted at a depth of 18 in.

  • He died in London of typhoid fever on the 27th of June 1883, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

  • Such drainage as had at one time existed was allowed to get choked up, giving rise to typhoid fever of a virulent type.

  • Epidemics of smallpox and typhoid occur; and leprosy, imported from the Orange River and Cape Colonies, has taken firm hold on the Basuto, of whom about 9r per too() are sufferers from this disease.

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Words Starting With

TTYTYP

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