Typhus

ti'fus, n. (Med.) A contagious or infectious and often malignant continued fever attended with great prostration and cerebral disorder. —Typhous, -fus, a. Of, or pert, to, etc.— Typhoid, -foid, a. Of, pert, to, or resembling, typhus. — Ti/nhoid Fever. A dangerous continued fever, characterized by ulcerations of the intestines; often caused by use of imoure water, etc.: enteric fever. — Ty'phb-mala'rial, -la'rY-al, a. Pert, to typhus and malarial, — as typho-malarial fever, a form of fever having symptoms both of mnlanal and of typhoid fever. Typical, Typify, Typography, etc. See under Type. \ linger or ink, then, boNboN, chair, get. 484