TYPHOIDS
Noun
typhoids
plural of typhoid
Source: Wiktionary
TYPHOID
Ty"phoid, a. Etym: [Typhus + -oid: cf. F. typhoïde, Gr. Typhus.]
(Med.)
Definition: Of or pertaining to typhus; resembling typhus; of a low grade
like typhus; as, typhoid symptoms. 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,
diarrhæa 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition