Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or relating to typhus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med.) Of or pertaining to typhus; of the nature of typhus.
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- adjective medicine Of or pertaining to
typhus ; of the nature of typhus.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Also used for typhous diseases, in dyspepsia, as a gargle for sore throat, as a mild stimulant in typhoid fevers, and to promote eruptions.
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Also used for typhous diseases, in dyspepsia, as a gargle for sore throat, as a mild stimulant in typhoid fevers, and to promote eruptions.
Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868
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It was not long before he received the contagion of typhous fever, whilst attending a patient, belonging to that very dispensary of which he had been so anxious to become physician.
Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Thomas Garnett 1784
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