单词 | typhous |
释义 | typhousadj. Medicine. Now rare. Of, relating to, or of the nature of typhus or typhoid fever; affected with typhus or typhoid fever. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [adjective] > typhus typhoid1661 typhous1781 typhic1860 typhodial1864 1781 Med. Comm. 8 i. 191 The typhous patients of Sir J. Pringle were soldiers, men generally about the prime of life, well fed, of plethoric habits and sanguine temperaments. 1805 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 14 341 The district..has been..more free from typhous fever, than the more distant parts of the metropolis. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 68 Prisoners confined in jails with typhous miasm around them. 1876 J. J. Woodward Typho-malarial Fever 28 Drake has also presented an interesting account of the distribution throughout the United States of typhoid, or, as he calls it, typhous fever. 1910 O. Jones & M. Woodward Gamekeeper's Note-bk. 203 Hares suffer each year in some places from a disease of a typhous nature, aggravated by feeding on frosted clover. 1975 A. Mitscherlich & M. Mitscherlich Inability to Mourn i. 34 At the beginning of his treatment he mentioned that..he and some of his comrades had drunk contaminated water which had given him a severe attack of typhous enteritis and phosphorus poisoning. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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