Definition of Tiphoid
Ty"phoid (?), a. [Typhus + -
oid: cf. F. typhoïde, Gr. &?;. See Typhus.]
(Med.) Of or pertaining to typhus; resembling typhus; of a low
grade like typhus; as, typhoid symptoms.
Typhoid fever, a disease formerly confounded with
typhus, but essentially different from the latter. It is characterized by
fever, lasting usually three or more weeks, diarrhæa with evacuations
resembling pea soup in appearance, and prostration and muscular debility,
gradually increasing and often becoming profound at the acme of the
disease. Its local lesions are a scanty eruption of spots, resembling flea
bites, on the belly, enlargement of the spleen, and ulceration of the
intestines over the areas occupied by Peyer's glands. The virus, or
contagion, of this fever is supposed to be a microscopic vegetable
organism, or bacterium. Called also enteric fever. See Peyer's
glands. -- Typhoid state, a condition
common to many diseases, characterized by profound prostration and other
symptoms resembling those of typhus.
Ty"phoid (?), a. [Typhus + -
oid: cf. F. typhoïde, Gr. &?;. See Typhus.]
(Med.) Of or pertaining to typhus; resembling typhus; of a low
grade like typhus; as, typhoid symptoms.
Typhoid fever, a disease formerly confounded with
typhus, but essentially different from the latter. It is characterized by
fever, lasting usually three or more weeks, diarrhæa with evacuations
resembling pea soup in appearance, and prostration and muscular debility,
gradually increasing and often becoming profound at the acme of the
disease. Its local lesions are a scanty eruption of spots, resembling flea
bites, on the belly, enlargement of the spleen, and ulceration of the
intestines over the areas occupied by Peyer's glands. The virus, or
contagion, of this fever is supposed to be a microscopic vegetable
organism, or bacterium. Called also enteric fever. See Peyer's
glands. -- Typhoid state, a condition
common to many diseases, characterized by profound prostration and other
symptoms resembling those of typhus.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- (pathology) typhoid fever
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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