typhoid fever
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3.9
- noun
- /ˈtaɪfɔɪd ˈfiːvər/
- Specialized
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fiebre tifoidea
- You could get typhoid fever from drinking contaminated water.
- typhoid fever and cholera
Examples
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During this time, typhoid fever was a great killer, and one of its principal causes was drinking contaminated water.
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However, the Japanese missionaries soon converted the mission into a hospital due to a serious outbreak of typhoid fever among the Japanese fishermen.
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If you are not careful, health officials will order closing the hotel before we get typhoid fever.
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My sister had typhoid fever in the early 1960s.
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Fatal cases could be attributed to multiple conditions, including typhoid fever.
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There's no need to wait until somebody dies or comes down with typhoid fever.
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King James' firstborn son and heir to the throne, Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, died of typhoid fever.
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On the other hand, control of typhoid fever or cholera transmitted by water depends primarily on improving the microbial quality of the water.
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The most serious health threat throughout the new occupation was typhoid fever, which appeared in localized epidemics, occasionally causing deaths (9).
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A 9-year-old girl was admitted complaining of low-grade fever for several weeks; treatment started with intravenous chloramphenicol for typhoid fever.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
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7.1
A serious illness that causes high fever and stomach pain and spreads by unsafe food or water
A serious disease that causes high fever and stomach pain from unsafe food or water
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase simply names the fever associated with the infectious disease typhoid, so a learner who knows 'typhoid' (an infectious disease) and 'fever' (high body temperature) can compose the meaning directly. This disease-name + symptom pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows a transparent noun+noun composition, making it accessible to B1 learners who know the constituents.
Etymology
Typhoid fever may come from an old word meaning 'like typhus', from a Greek word for 'smoke' or 'being dazed'. Doctors called the illness typhoid because people with it often became very weak, confused, and had a high fever, so the name links that dazed state to the disease today.