typhoid

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Typhoid fever.
• adjective Of, relating to, or resembling typhoid fever.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Resembling typhus: noting a specific continued fever.
• noun Typhoid fever. See fever.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• adjective (Med.) Of or pertaining to typhus; resembling typhus; of a low grade like typhus.
• adjective a disease formerly confounded with typhus, but essentially different from the latter. It is characterized by fever, lasting usually three or more weeks, diarrhæa with evacuations resembling pea soup in appearance, and prostration and muscular debility, gradually increasing and often becoming profound at the acme of the disease. Its local lesions are a scanty eruption of spots, resembling flea bites, on the belly, enlargement of the spleen, and ulceration of the intestines over the areas occupied by Peyer's glands. The virus, or contagion, of this fever is supposed to be a microscopic vegetable organism, or bacterium. Called also enteric fever. See Peyer's glands.
• adjective a condition common to many diseases, characterized by profound prostration and other symptoms resembling those of typhus.

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• noun pathology typhoid fever

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• noun serious infection marked by intestinal inflammation and ulceration; caused by Salmonella typhosa ingested with food or water