paratyphoid fever

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *per-

Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-

Proto-Hellenic *pərai

Ancient Greek πᾰρᾰ́ (părắ)

Ancient Greek πᾰρᾰ- (pără-)der.

English para-

English typhoid fever

English paratyphoid fever

From para- + typhoid fever.

Noun

paratyphoid fever (countable and uncountable, plural paratyphoid fevers)

1. (pathology) Any of a variety of acute infectious intestinal diseases resembling typhoid fever but less severe, caused by eating food contaminated with certain bacteria of the genus Salmonella.

Translations

acute infectious intestinal disease

• Belarusian: паратыф m (paratyf)
• Bulgarian: паратиф m (paratif)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 副傷寒 / 副伤寒 (zh) (fùshānghán)

• Finnish: pikkulavantauti (fi)
• Indonesian: demam paratifoid, paratifus (id), paratifoid
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: paratyfus m, paratyfoidfeber m

  Nynorsk: paratyfus m, paratyfoidfeber m

• Russian: парати́ф (ru) m (paratíf)
• Spanish: paratifus m
• Swedish: paratyfus (sv) c
• Ukrainian: паратиф m (paratyf)

See also

• enteric fever
• necrotic enteritis