typhoid
pronunciation
How to pronounce typhoid in British English:
UK [ˈtaɪfɔɪd]
How to pronounce typhoid in American English:
US [ˈtaɪˌfɔɪd]
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- Noun:
- serious infection marked by intestinal inflammation and ulceration; caused by Salmonella typhosa ingested with food or water
Word Origin
- typhoid
- typhoid: see stew
- typhoid (adj.)
- 1800, literally "resembling typhus," from typhus + -oid. The noun is from 1861, a shortened form of typhoid fever (1845), so called because it originally was thought to be a variety of typhus. Typhoid Mary (1909) was Mary Mallon (d.1938), a typhoid carrier who worked as a cook and became notorious after it was learned she unwittingly had infected hundreds in U.S.
Example
- 1. Japanese troops also dropped cholera and typhoid cultures in wells and ponds , but the results were often counterproductive .
- 2. After prince albert died of typhoid in 1861 , a grief-stricken queen victoria demanded that piped water and sewage treatment be installed throughout britain .
- 3. They 're generally considered the universal symbol for dirty living quarters , in part because roaches feed off rotting organic matter and can spread diseases like dysentery and typhoid .
- 4. In addition , dr. yuasa -- who is now deeply apologetic about what he did -- said he cultivated typhoid germs in test tubes and passed them on , as he had been instructed to do , to another army unit .