Typhus
['taɪfəs]
Definition
(noun.) rickettsial disease transmitted by body lice and characterized by skin rash and high fever.
Typist: Oliver--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Checker: Sigmund
Definition
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.
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Examples
- Towards the end of October it dwindled away, and was in some degree replaced by a typhus, of hardly less virulence. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The fever had turned to typhus. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I wrote to him; I said I was sorry for his disappointment, but Jane Eyre was dead: she had died of typhus fever at Lowood. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I warn you once more that the fever has turned to typhus, and that your treatment is responsible for this lamentable change. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It is typhus fever, he said. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- A given organization may live in a full fever-hospital, and escape typhus. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He was big enough to carry typhus by the ton, and to dye the very carpet he walked on with scarlet fever. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- We've killed more fascists than the typhus. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- For a whole fortnight we unceasingly watched beside the poor child, as his life declined under the ravages of a virulent typhus. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It is NOT typhus fever, he remarked sharply. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Typhus, replied the physician Typhus fever beyond all doubt. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- But we had hope of our charming patient on the fifth day from the appearance of the typhus. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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