typhus

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  1. noun Any of several forms of infectious disease caused by rickettsia, especially those transmitted by fleas, lice, or mites, and characterized generally by severe headache, sustained high fever, depression, delirium, and the eruption of red rashes on the skin. Also called prison fever, ship fever, typhus fever.

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  • When the typhus was finally driven out, Mr. Lithgow Osborne visited the camp and his report of conditions there was such that I visited it myself, in the meantime holding up his report until I had verified it. —  My Four Years in Germany
  • But his “nervous fever” could also have been typhus, a disease characterized by high fever and delirium, and transmitted by lice. —  John Adams by David McCullough
  • Lice carried typhus, they'd have to leave the bodies a full ten days, or burn them, and scrub everyone and do a clothes wash. —  Map.html
  • Few people have survived frostbite, typhus, an exploding air balloon, and poisoning with arsenic; explored Uzbekistan
  • As Shimon was recovering from typhus, his mother carried him on her back to the marshes, where the partisans were hiding.
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  1. New Latin tȳphus, from Greek tūphos, stupor arising from a fever, vapor, from tūphein, to smoke.

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  1. = French typhus = Spanish tifo = Portuguese typho = Italian tifo = D. G. typhus = Swedish Danish tyfus, from New Latin typhus, typhus (cf. Latin typhus, pride, vanity), from Greek τῦφος, smoke, vapor, mist (hence, vanity, conceit), also stupor, especially stupor arising from fever, from τύφειν, smoke: see typhon.
 

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