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Definition of Typhoid

1. Noun. Serious infection marked by intestinal inflammation and ulceration; caused by Salmonella typhosa ingested with food or water.

Definition of Typhoid

1. a. Of or pertaining to typhus; resembling typhus; of a low grade like typhus; as, typhoid symptoms.

Definition of Typhoid

1. Noun. (pathology) typhoid fever ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Typhoid

1. an infectious disease [n -S]

Medical Definition of Typhoid

1. An infectious febrile illness usually spread by contamination of food, milk or water supplies with Salmonella typhi, either directly by sewage, indirectly by flies or by faulty personal hygiene. There are less than 600 cases per year in the US. Asymptomatic carriers harbor the organism in their gallbladder and excrete it in their stools for years. Average incubation time is 10-14 days. Fever, diarrhoeal stools (often bloody), abdominal pain, malaise and a rose coloured rash on the upper abdomen are seen. Severe cases may progress to delirium and obtundation. Complications include glomerulonephritis. Treatment includes intravenous fluids and antibiotics (chloramphenicol or ampicillin). Vaccines are recommended for travel to endemic areas. (27 Sep 1997)

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Literary usage of Typhoid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Report by Indiana State Board of Health (1917)
"Offensive measures are sterilization of feces and urine of typhoid ... Water and milk as the sources of typhoid infection have been much over estimated. ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"typhoid fever like cholera is considered as "ingestion infection" and both are disseminated from the excreta, vomit and perhaps sputum. ..."

3. Preventive medicine and hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau (1917)
"In the United States typhoid fever stands fourth on the list of mortality ... The average fatality from typhoid fever being nearly 10 per cent., it would, ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1902)
"So much difference of opinion appears to exist regarding the frequency of the occurrence of typhoid fever in the first two years of life and the nature of ..."

5. The Lancet (1898)
"In 1884 Pettenkofer investigated the typhoid fever mortality in 871 houses ... He found that " they did not suffer more from typhoid than their fellow ..."

6. Index of Economic Material in the Documents of the States of the United by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse, Carnegie Institution of Washington. Dept. of Economics and Sociology (1912)
"What may bds. of health do to prevent typhoid fever? by Dr. HC Houston. ... Concerning typhoid fever; three theories of causation discussed by VC Vaughan. ..."

7. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1874)
"Lindwurm, iu an essay on typhoid in the hospital on the left bank of the Tsar, observes that it is generally believed that those who have been once affected ..."

8. Pathogenic Micro-organisms: Including Bacteria and Protozoa; a Practical by William Hallock Park, Anna Wessels Williams (1910)
"Its etiological relationship to typhoid fever has been particularly difficult ... Nevertheless the specific reactions of the blood serum of typhoid patients ..."

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