Both Uses of
typhoid
in
Middlemarch
- But since he did not mean to marry for the next five years—his more pressing business was to look into Louis' new book on Fever, which he was specially interested in, because he had known Louis in Paris, and had followed many anatomical demonstrations in order to ascertain the specific differences of typhus and typhoid.†
Chpt 2
- That there might be an awkward affair with Wrench, Lydgate saw at once; but the ease was serious enough to make him dismiss that consideration: he was convinced that Fred was in the pink-skinned stage of typhoid fever, and that he had taken just the wrong medicines.†
Chpt 3 *
Definition:
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(typhoid) a serious infection marked by intestinal inflammation and ulceration; caused by contaminated food or watereditor's notes: Environmental sanitation has virtually eliminated typhoid from the developed world, but worldwide it is still thought to infect millions and kill tens of thousands each year.
Typhoid may also be called enteric fever.