typhoid Synonyms
Another word for typhoid
• noun (Context 1)
An acute, life-threatening infectious bacterial disease caused by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi, typically transmitted through contaminated water or food and characterized by sustained high fever, abdominal pain, intestinal inflammation, and rose-colored spots on the chest and abdomen.
"Improvements in municipal water filtration and sanitation dramatically reduced the incidence of typhoid fever in the nineteenth century."
• adjective (Context 2)
Relating to, affected with, or characteristic of typhoid fever.
"Public health officials worked quickly to contain the typhoidal outbreak in the flooded district."
• adjective (Context 3)
Resembling or characteristic of typhus, especially in causing high fever and stupor (archaic).
"Eighteenth-century physicians often grouped several distinct illnesses together based on their typhous symptoms."