Associations to the word «Typhus»

Wiktionary

TYPHUS, noun. (pathology) One of several similar diseases, characterised by high recurrent fever, caused by Rickettsiae bacteria. Not to be confused with typhoid fever.

Dictionary definition

TYPHUS, noun. Rickettsial disease transmitted by body lice and characterized by skin rash and high fever.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope