Definition of typhus Typhus
/tajˈfʌs/ - [tayfus] - ty•phus
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What does typhus mean?
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NounPlural: typhuses |
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| typhus - rickettsial disease transmitted by body lice and characterized by skin rash and high fever | ||
| typhus fever | ||
| rickettsial disease, rickettsiosis infectious disease caused by ticks or mites or body lice infected with rickettsial bacteria | ||
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Wiktionary 
- typhus (Noun)
One of several similar diseases, characterised by high recurrent fever, caused by Rickettsiae bacteria. Not to be confused with typhoid fever .
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- typhus (n.)
A contagious continued fever lasting from two to three weeks, attended with great prostration and cerebral disorder, and marked by a copious eruption of red spots upon the body. Also called jail fever, famine fever, putrid fever, spottled fever, etc. See Jail fever, under Jail.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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typhus
tī′fus, n. an extremely contagious and very fatal kind of continued fever, specially associated with filth and overcrowding, often occurring as an epidemic—Jail-fever, Camp-fever, &c.—adj. Ty′phous, relating to typhus. [Through Late L. from Gr. typhos, smoke, hence stupor arising from fever—typhein, to smoke.]
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🔤- typhus, noun, singular of typhuses.
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