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typhoid fevers

typhoid fevers is the plural of typhoid fever.

Meaning of typhoid fever

Noun

typhoid fever (countable and uncountable, plural typhoid fevers)

  1. An illness caused by the bacterium serovar Salmonella Typhi. Not to be confused with typhus.
    • The great French microbiologist Louis Pasteur [...] lost three of his five children to typhoid fever.2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 377

Questions about typhoid fevers

What is typhoid fevers the plural of?
Typhoid fevers is the plural of typhoid fever.

Words near typhoid fevers in the dictionary

  1. typhlosoles
  2. Typhoean
  3. typhogenic
  4. typhoid
  5. typhoid fever
  6. typhoid fevers
  7. Typhoid Mary
  8. Typhoid Marys
  9. typhoidal
  10. typhoidin
  11. typhoidins

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