typhus : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: typhus	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for typhus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
typhus n rickettsial disease transmitted by body lice and characterized by skin rash and high fever Synonym(s): typhus, typhus fever
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Typhus \Ty"phus\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] smoke, cloud, stupor arising from fever; akin to [?] to smoke, Skr. dh[?]pa smoke.] (Med.) A contagious continued fever lasting from two to three weeks, attended with great prostration and cerebral disorder, and marked by a copious eruption of red spots upon the body. Also called {jail fever}, {famine fever}, {putrid fever}, {spottled fever}, etc. See {Jail fever}, under {Jail}.