typhoid fever

An acute, highly infectious disease caused by a bacillus (Salmonella typhi) transmitted chiefly by contaminated food or water and characterized by high fever, headache, coughing, intestinal hemorrhaging, and rose-colored spots on the skin. Also called enteric fever.

typhoid fever

(Medicine / Pathology) 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 called enteric fever

[from typhus + -oid; so called because the symptoms resemble those of typhus]

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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.

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typhoid fever - serious infection marked by intestinal inflammation and ulceration; caused by Salmonella typhosa ingested with food or water

enteric fever, typhoid

infectious disease - a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact

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chloramphenicol
enteric fever
Gartner's bacillus
Gastric fever
genus Salmonella
infectious disease
Mallon
Mary Mallon
paratyphoid
paratyphoid fever
Peyer's glands
Pituitous
Pituitous fever
salmonella
Salmonella typhi
Salmonella typhosa
typhogenic
typhoid
typhoid (fever)

I came to typhoid fever - read the symptoms - discovered that I had typhoid fever, must have had it for months without knowing it - wondered what else I had got; turned up St.

Three Men In A Boat (To Say Nothing Of The Dog) by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context

And at the same time were arrested all socialist Congressmen in Washington, including the unfortunate Simpson, who lay ill with typhoid fever in his hotel.

The Iron Heel by London, Jack View in context

Now, I knew that them two houses in Lauriston Gardens was empty on account of him that owns them who won't have the drains seed to, though the very last tenant what lived in one of them died o' typhoid fever.

A Study In Scarlet by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context