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

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King