Typhus Synonyms

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Rickettsial disease transmitted by body lice and characterized by skin rash and high fever
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. typhus-fever

Words Related to Typhus

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. dysentery
  2. typhoid-fever
  3. cholera
  4. dysentry
  5. scarlet-fever
  6. bubonic-plague
  7. dengue-fever
  8. enteric-fever
  9. small-pox
  10. louse-borne
  11. gastro-enteritis

Typhus Sentence Examples

  • He died in Philadelphia on the 19th of April 1813, after a five days' illness from typhus fever.

  • Epidemics of typhus are not unknown, as well as ophthalmia.

  • After an attack of typhus he returned in 1809 to France, where he devoted himself to the study of the natural sciences.

  • The climate is mild and healthy, although serious epidemics of yellow fever and typhus have occurred.

  • There was no vaccine for endemic typhus in the Great War.

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