Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of typhoid fever: as, typhoidal symptoms.
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- adjective Of, pertaining to, or afflicted with
typhoid fever
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Examples
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At dawn that morning, the truck driver had pulled up in the fourteen-wheeler to a grassy clearing on the north bank of the Tana River, where crocodiles skulked in typhoidal water in the viridescent shadow of mangrove trees.
Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010
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At dawn that morning, the truck driver had pulled up in the fourteen-wheeler to a grassy clearing on the north bank of the Tana River, where crocodiles skulked in typhoidal water in the viridescent shadow of mangrove trees.
Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010
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When I have typhoidal strains people just call me S. typhi.
Archive 2006-06-01 Emma Lurie 2006
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When I have typhoidal strains people just call me S. typhi.
Salmonella enteritidis Emma Lurie 2006
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I have thousands of non-typhoidal strains as well.
Archive 2006-06-01 Emma Lurie 2006
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I have thousands of non-typhoidal strains as well.
Salmonella enteritidis Emma Lurie 2006
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These latter facts can only be ascribed to one cause which must have been an adjuvant factor in the suppression of the typhoidal conditions, and that one cause is the chlorination of the water-supply of all troops.
War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps John George 1918
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The increased frequency of typhoidal, zymotic, and malarious diseases in some parts of the United States, and the now common occurrence of some of them in districts where they were unknown forty years ago, are startling facts, and it is a very interesting question how far man's acts or neglects may have occasioned the change.
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 02 (historical) 1874
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The sweet air of heaven, the blue firmament, and the everlasting hills do not satisfy our poisoned hearts; so we make to ourselves a little tin-pot world of blotted-paper, debased rupees, graded lists, and tinsel honours; we try to feed our lungs on its typhoidal effluvia.
Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series George Robert Aberigh-Mackay 1864
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Sometimes it becomes epidemic, and assumes a languid or typhoidal cast, -- not Positivism, but Agnosticism.
The History of Dartmouth College Baxter Perry Smith 1856
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