meaning of typhus
1. A contagious continued fever lasting from two to three weeks, attended with great prostration and cerebral disorder, and marked by a copious eruption of red spots upon the body. Also called jail fever, famine fever, putrid fever, spottled fever, etc. See Jail fever, under Jail.
2. rickettsial disease transmitted by body lice and characterized by skin rash and high fever
Related Words
typhus | typhus fever |
