Noting a fever resembling typhoid fever in its general features, but usually following a mild course, and distinguished from typhoid fever by absence of the Widal reaction.
n. Paratyphoid fever.
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n. any of a variety of infectious intestinal diseases resembling typhoid fever
Word Usage
"Imagine that in your house, a rat with its fleas, trichinae, rabies, typhus, paratyphoid, the plague, and other diseases is so ill that it dies and falls into a pot of green beans or juicy strawberries."