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typhoid


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Typhoid  \Ty"phoid\,  a.  [Typhus  +  -oid:  cf  F.  typho["i]de,  Gr 
  ?.  See  {Typhus}.]  (Med.) 
  Of  or  pertaining  to  typhus;  resembling  typhus;  of  a  low  grade 
  like  typhus;  as  typhoid  symptoms. 
 
  {Typhoid  fever},  a  disease  formerly  confounded  with  typhus, 
  but  essentially  different  from  the  latter.  It  is 
  characterized  by  fever,  lasting  usually  three  or  more 
  weeks,  diarrh[ae]a  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}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  typhoid 
  n  :  marked  by  intestinal  inflammation  and  ulceration;  caused  by 
  Salmonella  typhosa  ingested  with  food  or  water  [syn:  {typhoid 
  fever},  {enteric  fever}] 




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