paratyphoid
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paratyphoid
(ˌpærəˈtaɪfɔɪd) patholadj
1. (Pathology) resembling typhoid fever or its causative agent
2. (Pathology) of or relating to paratyphoid fever
n
(Pathology) short for paratyphoid fever
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par•a•ty•phoid
(ˌpær əˈtaɪ fɔɪd)n.
1. Also called par′aty′phoid fe′ver. an infectious disease, similar in some of its symptoms to typhoid fever but usu. milder, caused by any of several bacilli of the genus Salmonella other than S. typhi.
adj. 2. of or pertaining to paratyphoid.
3. resembling typhoid.
[1900–05]
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Noun | 1. | paratyphoid - any of a variety of infectious intestinal diseases resembling typhoid fever infectious disease - a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact |
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Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
paratyphoid
n → Paratyphus m
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
par·a·ty·phoid
n. paratífica, fiebre similar a la tifoidea.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
paratyphoid
adj paratifoidea; — fever paratifoidea; n paratifoideaEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.