Typhoid

Definition: Typhoid

Typhoid

Noun

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

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

Botanical

Dream Interpretation

Medicine

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Synonyms: Typhoid

Crosswords: Typhoid

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

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

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References

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

  (more reference examples)

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)

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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.

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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)

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

Beginning with "typhoid": Typhoid-Paratyphoid Vaccines.

Ending with "typhoid": non-typhoid.

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)

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)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: phytoid.

-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.

+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.