Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Noting a fever resembling typhoid fever in its general features, but usually following a mild course, and distinguished from typhoid fever by absence of the Widal reaction.
- noun Paratyphoid fever.
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- adjective Resembling
typhoid . - noun
paratyphoid fever
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- noun any of a variety of infectious intestinal diseases resembling typhoid fever
Etymologies
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Examples
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I remember one occasion, when I had something called paratyphoid — it wasn't typhoid but I had to rest for many, many weeks — mother would read entire sets.
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Typhoid, and what was described as paratyphoid, fevers followed these maladies.
The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula Herbert Brayley Collett 1912
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Several intestinal diseases such as paratyphoid and paradysentery are transmitted by flies whilst a series of facts also point to the possibility that infantile paralysis is thus transmitted.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1948 - Presentation Speech 1964
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Imagine that in your house, a rat with its fleas, trichinae, rabies, typhus, paratyphoid, the plague, and other diseases is so ill that it dies and falls into a pot of green beans or juicy strawberries.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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Imagine that in your house, a rat with its fleas, trichinae, rabies, typhus, paratyphoid, the plague, and other diseases is so ill that it dies and falls into a pot of green beans or juicy strawberries.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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Imagine that in your house, a rat with its fleas, trichinae, rabies, typhus, paratyphoid, the plague, and other diseases is so ill that it dies and falls into a pot of green beans or juicy strawberries.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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Imagine that in your house, a rat with its fleas, trichinae, rabies, typhus, paratyphoid, the plague, and other diseases is so ill that it dies and falls into a pot of green beans or juicy strawberries.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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My cousins S. paratyphi causes paratyphoid fever but I just think he's copying me
Salmonella enteritidis Emma Lurie 2006
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My cousins S. paratyphi causes paratyphoid fever but I just think he's copying me
Archive 2006-06-01 Emma Lurie 2006
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On at least eleven occasions before and during World War II the Imperial Japanese Army employed germ agents as diverse as cholera, dysentery, bubonic plague, anthrax, and paratyphoid, disseminated in both water and air.
One-Alarm Fire 2001
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