typhoid

[US]/'taɪfɒɪd/
[UK]/'taɪfɔɪd/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. relating to typhoid fever; pertaining to typhoid rash fever
n. typhoid
Word Forms
Pluraltyphoids

Phrases & Collocations

typhoid fever

typhoid mary

Example Sentences

An outbreak of typhoid followed.

Typhoid fever sneaks in when sanitation fails.

immunity to typhoid seems to have increased spontaneously.

A sudden attack of typhoid cut him off in the prime of his life.

Everyone who is going abroad will need to be immunised against typhoid.

Familiar with the etiology, infection passage and pathogenesis of tuberculosis, typhoid fever, bacillary dysentery and amoebiasis.

2.Familiar with the etiology, infection passage and pathogenesis of tuberculosis, typhoid fever, bacillary dysentery and amoebiasis.

Real-world Examples

" Oh, the usual typhoid and sleeping sickness."

Source: Brave New World

I had typhoid fever which is really unusual.

Source: VOA Standard English_Americas

In 1915, typhoid broke out again -- this time at a hospital.

Source: VOA Slow English - Word Stories

He argued with him as Karl Ludwig succumbed to typhoid fever.

Source: Biography of Famous Historical Figures

She had private tests done to prove she did not have typhoid.

Source: VOA Slow English - Word Stories

In Ireland a famine and associated typhoid epidemic killed sixty-five thousand people.

Source: A Brief History of Everything

On October, 28th, 1818, Abigail Adams passed away at home from typhoid fever. She was 73.

Source: Biography of Famous Historical Figures

There we had people dying of diseases such as typhoid and tuberculosis and diphtheria and pneumonia.

Source: Discovery documentary "Understanding Bacteria"

The camp's head doctor, Namir al-Nasser, fears an outbreak of cholera or typhoid among other problems.

Source: VOA Standard June 2013 Collection

Louis Alcott has suffered poor health ever since she contracted typhoid fever while working as a war nurse.

Source: Cambridge IELTS Listening Actual Test 10 (Overseas Edition)

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