(originally) any fever deemed to be caused by putrefaction or accompanied by a putrid odour; (in later use) spec. typhus.

a pestilence; spec. typhus; bubonic plague.

A fever common in Mexico and South America; now spec. a murine typhus (cf. murine, adj. 2) found in Mexico which, unlike most forms of murine…

= synocha, n.

= Hungarian, adj. 1 Hungaric fever: an old name for typhus fever.

Medicine. An acute infectious disease frequently occurring in epidemics under conditions of overcrowding and poor hygiene, which is characterized…

typhus fever.

= jail-fever, n.

a kind of typhus fever arising in crowded hospitals from the poisonous condition of the atmosphere due to exhalations from diseased bodies.

A virulent type of typhus-fever, formerly endemic in crowded jails, and frequent in ships and other confined places.

a form of typhus fever, called also gaol fever and hospital fever.

= sense 2a.

Originally: any fever thought to resemble typhus or resulting in the typhoid state (see typhoid state n. at typhoid, adj. n.compounds 1). In later…

Of or pertaining to the stomach; situated in, performed by or in, the stomach; of the nature of a stomach. gastric fever, a term somewhat loosely…

Typhoid fever (in which inflammation and ulceration of the lymphoid follicles of the small intestine commonly occurs).

a fever affecting the intestines; spec. typhoid or paratyphoid fever.

= typhoid fever, n.

typhoid fever.

malignant typhus.

typh fever n. also simply typh see quots. typh poison n. poison causing typh fever.

Enteric fever (typhoid or paratyphoid fever); a case of this. Now chiefly historical.

(a) typhus; (b) relapsing fever.

any of several infectious diseases causing fever and rash; esp. typhoid fever.

(see quots.).

(see quots.).

typh fever n. also simply typh see quots. typh poison n. poison causing typh fever.

Paratyphoid fever; paratyphoid infection.