Typhoid \Ty"phoid\, a. [Typhus + -oid: cf. F. typho["i]de,
         Gr.
   ?. See Typhus.]
         (Med.)
   Of or pertaining to typhus; resembling typhus; of
         a low grade
   like typhus; as, typhoid symptoms.
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         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.
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