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typhus
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Typhus \Ty"phus\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? smoke, cloud, stupor arising from fever; akin to ? to smoke, Skr. dh?pa smoke.] (Med.) 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
acute infectious fever, usually accompanied by prostration, delirium, and small reddish spots, 1785, from medical Latin, from Greek typhos "stupor caused by fever," literally "smoke," from typhein "to smoke," related to typhos "blind," typhon "whirlwind," from PIE *dheubh-, perhaps an extended form of root *dheu- (1) "to fly about like dust."\n\nThe Greek term [typhos] (smoke, mist, fog) was employed by Hippocrates to define a confused state of the intellect, with a tendency to stupor (stupor attonitus); and in this sense it is aptly applied to typhus fever with its slow cerebration and drowsy stupor. Boissier de Sauvages first (in 1760) called this fever "typhus," and the name was adopted by Cullen of Edinburgh in 1769. Previous to the time of de Sauvages typhus was known as "Pestilential" or "Putrid Fever," or by some name suggested by the eruption, or expressive of the locality in which it appeared, as "Camp," "Jail," "Hospital," or "Ship Fever" (Murchison).
[Thomas Clifford, ed., "A System of Medicine," New York, 1897]
\nRelated: typhous (adj.).Wiktionary
n. (context pathology English) One of several similar diseases, characterised by high recurrent fever, caused by Rickettsiae bacteria. Not to be confused with typhoid fever.
WordNet
n. rickettsial disease transmitted by body lice and characterized by skin rash and high fever [syn: typhus fever]
Wikipedia
Typhus is any of several similar diseases caused by Rickettsia bacteria. The name comes from the Greek typhus meaning smoky or hazy, describing the state of mind of those affected with typhus. The causative organism Rickettsia is an obligate intracellular parasitic bacterium that cannot survive for long outside living cells. It is transmitted to humans via external parasites such as lice, fleas, and ticks. While "typhoid" means "typhus-like", typhus and typhoid fever are distinct diseases caused by different genera of bacteria.
Typhus is an altraloth, a unique magically augmented yugoloth, in the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game.
Usage examples of "typhus".
It is sometimes administered in scarlet and typhus fevers, and in all diseases in which there is a tendency to putrescence.
Eventually someone hit on the idea of breeding typhus in the labs and spraying it in an aerosol form from airplanes.
Four year olds dead of malaria, of typhus, of dengue fever, of all the horrible things that went on tormenting Africa no matter what anybody did.
Acute Catarrh also occurs during the initial stage of such eruptive diseases as measles, typhus, typhoid, erysipelas, etc.
Ghetto, hunger and exanthematic typhus did not particularly affect the Jewish populations.
By the end of the year nearly one million refugees had left Turkey for Greece bringing epidemics of typhus and malaria, trachoma and smallpox.
He was inoculated against the local and the artificially introduced strains of malaria, yellow jack, typhus, and dengue fever.
First there was spotted fever, then paratyphoid fever and abdominal typhus erysipelas.
Without some kind of stainless steel no sulfa drugs for infections, no DDT, no chloramphenicol to cure diseases like typhoid and typhus.
Australian ticks include the very nasty Q fever, tick typhus and Lyme disease.
The absence of typhoid and typhus fevers amongst all the causes which are supposed to generate these diseases, appeared to be due to the fact that the great majority of these prisoners had been in captivity in Virginia, at Belle Island, and in other parts of the Confederacy for months, and even as long as two years, and during this time they had been subjected to the same bad influences, and those who had not had these fevers before either had them during their confinement in Confederate prisons or else their systems, from long exposure, were proof against their action.
IRS calls his buddy at FDA and they dig up a couple of cases of typhus out in the boondocks, seize their mailing list send out agents in Georgia Arkansas Mississippi Texas digging up typhus nobody told them to drink the Pee Dee water, a lot of God damn ignorant people out there see a bottle they open it and drink it that brings in the Post Office Department and the FCC, they all know each other.
I set a smear of his blood in with a preserved sample of the old Viet'sthe old man who had the typhusand Romain's WBCs attacked and destroyed the typhus bacilli as if they were at a picnic.
Smallpox, measles, influenza, and typhus competed for top rank among the killers.
Now a moment's reflection will show that the number of cases of serious consequences ensuing from the dissection of the bodies of those who had perished of puerperal fever is so vastly disproportioned to the relatively small number of autopsies made in this complaint as compared with typhus or pneumonia (from which last disease not one case of poisoning happened), and still more from all diseases put together, that the conclusion is irresistible that a most fearful morbid poison is often generated in the course of this disease.