typhoid fever
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nounDefinition of TYPHOID FEVER
: a communicable disease marked especially by fever, diarrhea, prostration, headache, and intestinal inflammation and caused by a bacterium (Salmonella typhi)
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1829
typhoid fever
noun (Medical Dictionary)Medical Definition of TYPHOID FEVER
: a communicable disease marked by fever, diarrhea, prostration, headache, splenomegaly, eruption of rose-colored spots, leukopenia, and intestinal inflammation and caused by a bacterium of the genus Salmonella (S. typhi)
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