typhus (ti'fus)

A contagious disease, with, eruption, severe fever, and prostration. It occurs under conditions of filth,, overcrowding, bad ventilation, poor food,, and is conveyed by the breath and skin exhalations. See also under fever, abdominal t. See typhoid fever, under typhoid. abortive t. An incomplete form of t. with a sudden and favorable stop in the evolution of the disease, t. levis sim us. A febrile condition which presents fewer of the symptoms of typhus f., but with great indistinctne ; to be surely diagnosed only by laboratory methods, t. malignans. Severe and rapidly fatal t. fever, t. recurrens. Relapsing fever. [Gr., typhos, fever stupor.]