typho

a. [ Typhus + -oid: cf. F. typhoïde, Gr. &unr_;. See Typhus. ] (Med.) Of or pertaining to typhus; resembling typhus; of a low grade like typhus; as, typhoid symptoms. [ 1913 Webster ]

Typhoid fever, a disease formerly confounded with typhus, but essentially different from the latter. It is characterized by fever, lasting usually three or more weeks, diarrhaea with evacuations resembling pea soup in appearance, and prostration and muscular debility, gradually increasing and often becoming profound at the acme of the disease. Its local lesions are a scanty eruption of spots, resembling flea bites, on the belly, enlargement of the spleen, and ulceration of the intestines over the areas occupied by Peyer's glands. The virus, or contagion, of this fever is supposed to be a microscopic vegetable organism, or bacterium. Called also enteric fever. See Peyer's glands. --
Typhoid state, a condition common to many diseases, characterized by profound prostration and other symptoms resembling those of typhus. [ 1913 Webster ]

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a. (Med.) Pertaining to typhoid fever and malaria; as, typhomalarial fever, a form of fever having symptoms both of malarial and typhoid fever. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. See Typhus, and Mania. ] (Med.) A low delirium common in typhus fever. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, and &unr_;. See Typhoon. ] (Class. Mythol.) 1. According to Hesiod, the son of Typhoeus, and father of the winds, but later identified with him. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ By modern writers, Typhon is identified with the Egyptian Set, who represents physical evil. Encyc. Brit. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A violent whirlwind; a typhoon. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The circling typhon whirled from point to point. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Earlier tuffoon, tuffon, Pg. tufão, Ar. tufān a violent storm; probably fr. Gr. tyfw^n, tyfw^s, a violent whirlwind, that rushes upward from the earth, whirling clouds of dust (cf. Typhus); or perhaps from Chin. t'ai-fung a cyclonic wind. ] A violent whirlwind; specifically, a violent whirlwind occurring in the Chinese seas. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. ] (Med.) Typhus. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Typhoid + -toxic. ] (Physiol. Chem.) A basic substance, C7H17NO2, formed from the growth of the typhoid bacillus on meat pulp. It induces in small animals lethargic conditions with liquid dejecta. [ 1913 Webster ]