Typhus

til us, n. {Med.) A contagious or infectious and often malignant continued fever attended with great prostration and cerebral disorder. [L. Gr. tuphos, smoke, cloud, stupor, esp. stupor arising fever, tuphein, to smoke, raise a smolce; Skr. dhuup, to fumigate, dhupa, smoke, E. fume, dust.] — 'pho us, -fus, a. Of, or pert, to, etc. —Ty'phoid -loid, a. Of, pert, to, or resembling, typhus. [Gr. tuphos and eidos, resemblance.] — Typhoid Fever. A dangerous continued fever, characterized by ulcerations of the intestines often caused by use of impure water, etc.; enteric fever. — Ty'pho-mala''- rlal, -la'rf-al, a. Pert, to typhus and malarial, — as tyjyho-malarial fever, a form of fever having symptoms both of malarial and of typhoid fever. Typical, Typify, Typography, etc. See under Type.