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Typhus fever   /tˈaɪfəs fˈivər/   Listen
Typhus fever

noun
1.
Rickettsial disease transmitted by body lice and characterized by skin rash and high fever.  Synonym: typhus.





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"Typhus fever" Quotes from Famous Books



... English Government. They died of hunger in the midst of abundance which their own hands created; and it is quite immaterial to distinguish those who perished in the agonies of famine itself from those who died by typhus fever, which in Ireland ...
— The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent • S.M. Hussey


Words linked to "Typhus fever" :   rickettsiosis, murine typhus, rat typhus, urban typhus, endemic typhus, typhus, rickettsial disease


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