Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Involving both typhoid and malarial characters: applied to a disease caused by the combined influence of filth and the malarial poison, or a typhoid fever in which the symptoms are modified by the action of malaria. Whether either of these conditions exists has been a subject of dispute among medical writers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med.) Pertaining to typhoid fever and malaria.
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- adjective Pertaining to
typhoid fever andmalaria .
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Examples
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This fever has been called typhomalarial fever, under the supposition that it was a hybrid of the two.
The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI) Kenelm Winslow
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