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ty·phoid

[tahy-foid] Pronunciation Key Pathology

–noun

1.	Also called typhoid fever. an infectious, often fatal, febrile disease, usually of the summer months, characterized by intestinal inflammation and ulceration, caused by the typhoid bacillus, which is usually introduced with food or drink.

–adjective

2.	resembling typhus; typhous.

3.	typhoidal.

[Origin: 1790–1800; typh(us) + -oid

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ty·phoid   (tī'foid') Pronunciation Key
n.   Typhoid fever.

adj.   also ty·phoi·dal (tī-foid'l)
Of, relating to, or resembling typhoid fever.

[N., short for typhoid fever. Adj., typh(us) + -oid (from its resemblance to typhus).]

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typhoid (adj.)

1800, lit. "resembling typhus," from typhus + suffix from Gk. -oeides "like," from eidos "form, shape" (see -oid). The noun is from 1861, a shortened form of typhoid fever (1845), so called because it was originally thought to be a variety of typhus. Typhoid Mary (1909) was Mary Mallon (d.1938), a typhoid carrier who worked as a cook and became notorious after it was learned she had unwittingly infected hundreds in U.S.

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

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typhoid ty·phoid (tī'foid')
n.
Typhoid fever. adj. ty·phoi·dal (tī-foid'l)
Of, relating to, or resembling typhoid fever.

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Main Entry: ¹ty·phoid
Pronunciation: 'tI-"foid, (')tI-'
Function: adjective
1 : of, relating to, or suggestive of typhus
2 : of, relating to, affected with, or constituting typhoid fever

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Main Entry: ²typhoid
Function: noun
1 : TYPHOID FEVER
2 : any of several diseases of domestic animals resembling human typhus or typhoid fever

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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.

Typhoid state, a condition common to many diseases, characterized by profound prostration and other symptoms resembling those of typhus.

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