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Typhus

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typhus fevernounrickettsial disease transmitted by body lice and characterized by skin rash and high fever

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typhus fevernounrickettsial disease transmitted by body lice and characterized by skin rash and high fever
typhoidnoun(pathology) Ellipsis of typhoid fever. [(pathology) An illness caused by the bacterium serovar Salmonella Typhi. Not to be confused with typhus.]
exanthematicOf or pertaining to exanthem.
maculatedHaving spots or blotches.
recrudescentBreaking out again or reemerging after temporary abatement or suppression.
typhosnounObsolete form of typhus. [(pathology) Any of several similar diseases, characterised by high recurrent fever, caused by Rickettsia bacteria. Not to be confused with typhoid fever.]
abdominal typhusnoun(pathology) typhoid fever (not to be confused with typhus)
typhizationnoun(medicine, archaic) infection with typhus or typhoid fever
typhoid fevernoun(pathology) An illness caused by the bacterium serovar Salmonella Typhi. Not to be confused with typhus.
putrid fevernounTyphus.
hospital fevernounTyphus.
maculated fevernoun(medicine, obsolete) Typhus characterized by a rash.
rickettsiosisnoun(medicine) Any severe infectious disease caused by several different bacteria of the order Rickettsiales and transmitted by parasitic arthropods.
pituitous fevernoun(medicine, archaic) typhoid fever
prison fevernounTyphus.
typhomanianoun(medicine, obsolete) A form of delirium common among sufferers of typhoid fever.
jail fevernoun(dated) any infectious disease spread in cramped and unhygienic conditions.
rickettsiemianoun(pathology) The presence of rickettsia in the blood
paratyphoid fevernoun(pathology) Any of a variety of acute infectious intestinal diseases resembling typhoid fever but less severe, caused by eating food contaminated with certain bacteria of the genus Salmonella.
scrub typhusnounA form of typhus caused by the intracellular parasite Orientia tsutsugamushi carried by certain mites.

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