paratyphoid

[ par-uh-tahy-foid ]

noun

1. Also called paratyphoid fever. an infectious disease, similar in some of its symptoms to typhoid but usually milder, caused by any of several bacilli of the genus Salmonella other than S. typhi.

adjective

1. of or relating to paratyphoid.
2. resembling typhoid.

paratyphoid

/ ˌpærəˈtaɪfɔɪd /

adjective

1. resembling typhoid fever or its causative agent
2. of or relating to paratyphoid fever

noun

1. See paratyphoid fever

Word History and Origins

Origin of paratyphoid¹

First recorded in 1900–05; para- ¹ + typhoid

Example Sentences

This time, the wind that howled in her ears and that changed the course of her life affected her own young body: she came down with an inner-ear infection combined with a disease called paratyphoid.

From Literature

Volunteers have been infected with a highly contagious bacteria to test a new paratyphoid vaccine.

From BBC

Choi and Cho said measles, chickenpox, cholera, typhoid, paratyphoid, hepatitis and tuberculosis repeatedly swept through North Korea when they were there.

From Washington Times

A group at the University of Oxford led by pediatrician Andrew Pollard has conducted a challenge study of experimental vaccines against typhoid and paratyphoid.

From Science Magazine

Especially is it true of meat poisoning epidemics that paratyphoid bacilli are found in causal relation with them.

From Project Gutenberg