typhoid

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Ellipsis of typhoid fever.

   Typhoid may not worry people as it once did, but it still affects more than 20 million people a year around the world.

2. 2
   noun

   serious infection marked by intestinal inflammation and ulceration

3. 3
   adj

   Characterised by or relating to typhus.

Etymology

From typhus + -oid.