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Typhoid

Definition: Typhoid

Typhoid

Noun

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "typhoid" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references)


Specialty Definition: Typhoid

DomainDefinition

Botanical

An infectious fever. Treated with Coffea, Costus. (references)

Dream Interpretation

To dream that you are affected with this malady, is a warning to beware of enemies, and look well to your health.
If you dream that there is an epidemic of typhoid, there will be depressions in business, and usual good health will undergo disagreeable changes. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Medicine

Typhoid fever:the most important member of the enteric group of fevers which also includes the paratyphoids. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Typhoid

Synonyms: enteric fever (n), typhoid fever (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Typhoid

English words defined with "typhoid": chloramphenicol, ChloromycetinGastric feverMallon, Mary Mallonparatyphoid, paratyphoid fever, petechia, Peyer's glands, Pituitous feversalmonella, Salmonella typhi, Salmonella typhosatyphoid bacillus, Typhoid Mary, Typhomalarial, TyphotoxinWidal test, Widal's test. (references)
Specialty definitions using "typhoid": COSTUS VILLOSISSIMUSophthalmic reaction, ophthalmoreactionSalmonella Vaccines, SulfaquinoxalineTYPHI, Typhoid-Paratyphoid Vaccines. (references)

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Modern Usage: Typhoid

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I'm sure Typhoid Mary was a very nice person too when you saw her socially. (The Fly; writing credit: David Cronenberg; George Langelaan)

Lyrics

And we got typhoid and dysentery. (In Old Mexico; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Typhoid

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References

  

Books

  • Daredevil Legends: Typhoid Mary (reference)

  • Dr. York, Miss Winnie and the Typhoid Shot (reference)

  • The Ballad of Typhoid Mary (reference)

  • The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Typhoid Fever (reference)

  • Typhoid Fever (Epidemics) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Typhoid

Illustrations:
Typhoid

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Photo Album: Typhoid

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In 1887, 27 year old Dr. Joseph Kinyoun set up his one person laboratory of hygiene to research cholera and other communicable diseases such as diphtheria, typhoid, small pox, typhus, plague and tuberculosis. This was the birth of NIH in a small attic room in the Marine Hospital in the village of Stapleton on Staten Island, New York. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Disaster Aid. Local citizens receive Typhoid vacinations from Dr. M.L. Fuller, Director, Laredo/Webb County Health Unit and other employees in a mass immunization program following the Rio Grande flood of 1954. Credit: CDC.

Salmonella typhi, the bacterium responsible for causing Typhoid Fever, has a preference for the gallbladder, and if present will colonize the surface of gallstones, which is how people become long term carriers of the disease. Credit: CDC.

[First typhoid inocculation]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[Bottling typhoid vaccine]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[A typhoid ward at Military Mobile Hospital No. 83, Gungalin]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[Loading a hospital train with typhoid victims, Station 83, Manchuria]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Typhoid Fever. : This Notice is Posted in Compliance with Law. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Typhoid inoculation at Marianna, Arkansas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Dr. Schreiber of San Augustine giving a typhoid innoculation at a rural school, San Augustine County, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Typhoid

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Get vaccinated against typhoid fever. (references)

If you suspect you have typhoid fever, see a doctor immediately. (references)

Typhoid fever can be prevented and can usually be treated with antibiotics. (references)

Business

Doubling life expectancy from 35 years in 1949 to 70 years in 1999, eliminating many infectious diseases like typhoid and cholera, and slashing the infant mortality rate (IMR) from over 200 deaths per 1,000 births in 1949 to 33.1 deaths in 1997, the People's Republic of China (PRC) had made historically unprecedented strides in improving its country's health. (references)

Human Rights

Kenya

According to the Government, 464 prisoners died in jails during the first 11 months of the year, compared with 768 in 2000. Deaths were due chiefly to tuberculosis, dysentery, anemia, malaria, heart attack, typhoid fever, and HIV/AIDS, for which there is little access to health care and medicine. (references)

Travel

Bolivia

Americans also have been victims of e-coli and typhoid. (references)

Cape Verde

Hepatitis A, typhoid and tetanus immunizations are strongly recommended. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Typhoid

"Typhoid" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 53.33% of the time. "Typhoid" is used about 30 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)53.33%1687,710
Adjective (general or positive)40%12101,599
Noun (proper)6.67%2245,945
                    Total100.00%30N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Typhoid

Expressions using "typhoid": pig typhoid typhoid bacillus Typhoid Fever typhoid Mary typhoid state. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "typhoid": Typhoid-Paratyphoid Vaccines.

Ending with "typhoid": non-typhoid.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Typhoid

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

typhoid fever

167

salmonella typhi typhoid

4

typhoid

141

symptom typhoid

3

typhoid mary

65

daredevil mary typhoid

3

typhoid vaccine

25

immunization typhoid

3

disease typhoid

8

epidemic typhoid

3

fever symptom typhoid

8

oral typhoid vaccine

3

picture of typhoid fever

8

cause fever typhoid

2

fever treatment typhoid

4

mary picture typhoid

2

typhoid vaccination

4

picture typhoid

2

shot typhoid

4

fever history typhoid

2

marvel mary typhoid

2
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Modern Translation: Typhoid

Language Translations for "typhoid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

tifoid, ethe tofoje. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏متعلق بحمة التفوس, ‏حمى التيفوئيد, ‏تيفوئيد البطن. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

тифозен (typhoidal, typhous), коремен тиф (enteric fever, typhoid fever, typhus). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

热症, 傷'症 . (various references)

   

Czech

  

tyfový, břišní tyfus. (various references)

   

Danish

  

typhoid, tyfoid. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

typhus abdominalis (typhoid fever), tyfus-koorts (typhoid fever), tyfus abdominalis (typhoid fever), klassieke varkenspest (classical swine fever, hog cholera, pig typhoid, swine fever, swine plague), choleratyfus (cholera typhoid, cholera typhus), choleratyfoïed (cholera typhoid), buiktyfus (typhoid fever). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

وابسته به تیفوءید, حصبه , تیفوءیدی . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

virusarteriitti (equine typhoid), sikarutto (classical swine fever, hog cholera, pig typhoid, swine fever, swine plague), lavantauti (typhoid fever), hevosen virusarteriitti (equine typhoid). (various references)

   

French

  

typhus (typhus). (various references)

   

German

  

typhös. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

τυφοειδήσ. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

טיפוס "בטן. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tífusz (gaol-fever, jail fever, typhoid fever, typhus). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

penyakit tipus (typhus). (various references)

   

Italian

  

tifoide, febbre tifoidea. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

腸チフス . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ちょうチフス. (various references)

   

Manx

  

yn typhoid (typhoid fever), yn chiassaghey breck (typhoid fever). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

yphoidtay

   

Portuguese

  

tifóide, febre tifóide (jail-fever). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

tiflã (snook), febrã tifoidã (enteric fever, typhoid fever). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

тифоидный, тифоид, брюшной тиф (enteric fever, thyphoid). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

tifusna groznica, tifoidan. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tifoidea. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tyfus (typhoid fever, typhus), tyfoidfeber (typhoid fever), klassisk svinpest (classical swine fever, hog cholera, pig typhoid, swine fever, swine plague), equin virusarterit (equine typhoid). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tifo (camp fever, enteric fever), karahumma (camp fever, enteric fever). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

черевний тиф, тифозний (typhous). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Typhoid

Derivations

Words beginning with "typhoid": typhoids. (additional references)

Words ending with "typhoid": antityphoid, paratyphoid. (additional references)

Words containing "typhoid": paratyphoids. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Typhoid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Tikhait, Trypho, Tyfil, Typha, typhi, typhid, Tyrhtil. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Typhoid"

Words rhyming with "typhoid" (pronounced 'Ty"phoid'): Acalephoid. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Typhoid

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: phytoid.

Words within the letters "d-h-i-o-p-t-y"

-2 letters: dhoti, hyoid, pithy, pyoid, tophi.

-3 letters: dipt, doit, dopy, doth, doty, hypo, phot, pith, pity, thio, tidy, tody, toph, topi, typo, yodh.

-4 letters: dip, dit, dot, hid, hip, hit, hod, hop, hot, hoy, hyp, opt, phi, pht, pit, pod, poh, poi, pot, tho, thy, tip, tod, top, toy, yid, yip, yod.

-5 letters: do, hi.

 Words containing the letters "d-h-i-o-p-t-y"
 

+1 letter: typhoids.

 

+3 letters: diphyodont, dystrophic, endophytic, hypnotized, pyrethroid.

 

+4 letters: antityphoid, cardiopathy, copyrighted, cryptorchid, dystrophies, hydropathic, hydrophytic, hydrotropic, hypothyroid, parathyroid, paratyphoid, postholiday, pyrethroids.

 

+5 letters: cryptorchids, heteroploidy, hydropathies, hydrotropism, hyperthyroid, hypostatized, hypothesized, parathyroids, paratyphoids, phagocytized, phosphatidyl, photodynamic, pteridophyte, radiotherapy, rehypnotized.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Derivations
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Bibliography


  

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