typhoid fever

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Noun

typhoid fever (countable and uncountable, plural typhoid fevers)

2. (biology, medicine) An illness caused by the bacterium serovar Salmonella Typhi. Not to be confused with typhus.

   Synonyms: abdominal typhus, (archaic) drain fever, enteric fever, (shortened form) typhoid

   • 1883 September 22, “The week. Topics of the day”, in The Medical Times and Gazette. A Journal of Medical Science, Literature, Criticism, and News‎^[1], page 350:

     The sanitary authorities of St. Pancras have lost no time in dealing with the outbreak of typhoid fever in Camden Town; a largely augmented staff of officers have been engaged for some days in making a partial house-to-house inspection. Their inquiries have elicited the fact that the epidemic has been more widely spread than was at first imagined, and that the published statements respecting it, instead of being exaggerated, have been considerably below the mark.

   • 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 377:

     The great French microbiologist Louis Pasteur [...] lost three of his five children to typhoid fever.

Related terms

• paratyphoid fever

Translations

illness

• Arabic: الْحُمَّى التِّيفِيَّة (al-ḥummā t-tīfiyya)
• Catalan: febre tifoide f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 傷寒症 / 伤寒症 (zh) (shānghánzhèng), 傷寒 / 伤寒 (zh) (shānghán)

• Czech: břišní tyfus m
• Dutch: paratyfus (nl) m
• Esperanto: tifoida febro, tifo (eo)
• Finnish: lavantauti (fi)
• French: fièvre typhoïde (fr) f
• German: Typhus (de) m, (specifically) Bauchtyphus m, Abdominaltyphus m
• Greek: τυφοειδής πυρετός (el) m (tyfoeidís pyretós)
• Hindi: ^{(please verify)} टाइफाइड (ṭāiphāiḍ)
• Hungarian: hastífusz (hu)
• Indonesian: demam tifoid
• Italian: febbre tifoide f
• Japanese: 腸チフス (ja) (chō-chifusu)
• Kazakh: іш сүзек (iš süzek)
• Korean: 장티푸스 (ko) (jangtipuseu)
• Lithuanian: vidurių šiltinė f
• Malay: demam kepialu
• Malayalam: ടൈഫോയ്ഡ് (ṭaiphōyḍŭ), വിഷജ്വരം (ml) (viṣajvaraṁ), സന്നിപാതജ്വരം (ml) (sannipātajvaraṁ)
• Manchu: ᡥᠠᡵᡴᠠᠰᡳ (harkasi)
• Māori: taipō, mate taipō
• Norman: typhoïde f
• Plautdietsch: Tiefuss n
• Polish: dur brzuszny (pl) m
• Portuguese: febre tifoide f
• Romanian: febră tifoidă (ro) f
• Russian: брюшно́й тиф (ru) m (brjušnój tif)
• Salar: yamus
• Scottish Gaelic: am fiabhras-breac m
• Spanish: fiebre tifoidea f
• Swedish: tyfoidfeber (sv) c
• Tagalog: tipus
• Tamil: ^{(please verify)} டைபாய்டு (ṭaipāyṭu)
• Turkish: tifo (tr)
• Ukrainian: черевни́й тиф m (čerevnýj tyf)
• Vietnamese: thương hàn (vi)

Further reading

• Typhoid fever on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Typhus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia