typhoid

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noun

ty·phoid ˈtī-ˌfȯid

(ˌ)tī-ˈfȯid

: typhoid fever

: a disease of domestic animals resembling human typhus or typhoid

typhoid

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adjective

: of, relating to, or suggestive of typhus

[typhoid entry 1] : of, relating to, or constituting typhoid

Example Sentences

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Noun

Greater frequency and intensity of hurricanes has accelerated outbreaks of life-threatening gastrointestinal diseases like cholera and typhoid. —

Alice Hill, STAT, 24 Apr. 2021 McCarthy's office declined to provide specifics about whether the top House Republican opposes requirements in schools, the military and private businesses that individuals be vaccinated against deadly diseases such as the measles, meningitis and typhoid. —

BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2021 On March 13, 1884, Leland Stanford, Jr., Leland and Jane Elizabeth Lathrop Stanford’s only son, died of typhoid in Florence, two months shy of his sixteenth birthday. —

David Leavitt, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023 In the early 1900s, when waterborne diseases like typhoid regularly sickened Americans, Johns Hopkins graduate and engineer Abel Wolman co-developed a way to determine the most accurate amount of chlorine needed to treat drinking water. —

Michelle Cho, NBC News, 10 Jan. 2023 So far, vaccines against only four different pathogens have cleared these hurdles and come in digestible forms: cholera, polio, rotavirus and typhoid. —

Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2021 Stanford and his wife founded the university after their son died of typhoid. —

Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2022 However, Irobunda says to be mindful of infectious diseases from insects like Zika, malaria, and typhoid that can affect pregnancies when selecting a destination. —

Bianca Lambert, Essence, 3 Jan. 2023 Nearly everyone in the village is sick with malaria or typhoid, Nadia said. —

Zia Ur-rehman Kiana Hayeri, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022

Adjective

Baker tracked her down five years later, working under an alias in the kitchen of Sloane Maternity Hospital, which was in the midst of a typhoid outbreak. —

Bessie Yuill, Discover Magazine, 2 July 2020 After testing positive for typhoid bacteria in 1907, she was forcibly moved to a quarantine facility on North Brother Island. —

Bessie Yuill, Discover Magazine, 2 July 2020 In the case of the Irish conflict, such an escalation took place within three days of the typhoid plot’s announcement. —

Claas Kirchhelle, Wired, 11 Mar. 2022 During the Spanish-American War, a typhoid-fever epidemic ravaged the U.S. Army, inflicting many more casualties than enemy bullets did. —

Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Nov. 2021 Leland Stanford, a former California governor and U.S. senator, founded Stanford with his wife, Jane, in 1885, the year after their 15-year-old son, Leland Stanford Jr., died of typhoid while traveling abroad, Miranda said. —

Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2022 In 1906 Thoby Stephen, to whom Bell was particularly close, contracted typhoid while on a holiday in Greece. —

Donna Rifkind, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022 With that painful lesson in mind, the U.S. Army made typhoid vaccinations compulsory during World War II. —

Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Nov. 2021 The group compared results from another 14,000 children in Malawi who didn’t get the typhoid vaccine. —

Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 22 Sep. 2021 See More

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