typhoid fever

noun

Definition of typhoid fever

: a communicable disease marked especially by fever, diarrhea, prostration, headache, and intestinal inflammation and caused by a bacterium (Salmonella typhi)

Examples of typhoid fever in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Mining camps and boomtowns were cesspools rife with cholera, meningitis, typhoid fever, venereal diseases and scurvy, among many other maladies. — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2022 The gesture was a tribute to their only son, Leland Jr., who died of typhoid fever at age 15. — Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2022 Also, pasteurization will kill the bacteria that cause various illnesses, including listeriosis, salmonellosis, campylobacteriosis, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, diphtheria, and brucellosis. — Chris Smith, BGR, 17 May 2022 Scientists believe typhoid fever from Salmonella may have been what killed Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. — Katie Wedell, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2022 Researchers have found that Mallon unknowingly carried the bacterium Salmonella typhi, which causes typhoid fever. — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 12 Apr. 2022 Overcrowding and poor sanitary conditions led to outbreaks of typhus, tuberculosis, typhoid fever and dysentery. — Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 1 Mar. 2022 Barton led the agency for the next 23 years, aiding countless victims of floods, hurricanes, tidal waves and typhoid fever, as well as those wounded in the Spanish-American War. — Kate Bolick, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Nov. 2021 As the whole world now knows, 15-year-old Anne Frank died (likely of typhoid fever) a day after her older sister, Margot, at the Bergen-Belsen death camp between February and April 1945. — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2022 See More

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typhoid fever

noun

Kids Definition of typhoid fever

: a disease that spreads through contaminated food and water and in which there is fever, diarrhea, and great weakness

typhoid fever

noun

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)