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单词 typhus
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Definition of typhus in English:

typhus

noun ˈtʌɪfəsˈtaɪfəs
mass noun
  • An infectious disease caused by rickettsiae, characterized by a purple rash, headaches, fever, and usually delirium, and historically a cause of high mortality during wars and famines. There are several forms, transmitted by vectors such as lice, ticks, mites, and rat fleas.

    斑疹伤寒。亦称SPOTTED FEVER

    Also called spotted fever
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The people at this camp were usually killed by diseases like tuberculosis and typhus.
    • The body louse, Pediculus humanus corporis, is a vector of epidemic typhus, trench fever, and relapsing fever.
    • The principal recorded killers were smallpox, influenza, measles, typhoid, typhus, chickenpox, whooping cough, tuberculosis and syphilis.
    • He joined the Royal Air Force as a medical officer and served in India, Burma, and Ceylon, where he encountered smallpox, plague, poliomyelitis, typhus, anthrax, malaria, and dysentery.
    • The concentration of so many men and camp followers promoted the outbreaks of cholera, diphtheria, dysentery, typhoid fever, typhus, bubonic plague - and venereal diseases.
    • All the British personnel have been vaccinated against diseases including typhus and yellow fever before being sent to Afghanistan, and since mid-March have been taking anti-malaria tablets.
    • In the 19th century, doctors prescribed whisky or brandy for all kinds of fevers, from influenza and pneumonia to malaria, typhus and cholera.
    • Rodents cost billions of dollars in lost crops each year, and some are carriers of human diseases such as bubonic plague, typhus, and Hanta fever.
    • The animals harbor the lice and fleas that spawn serious diseases such as typhus, trichinosis, and infectious jaundice.
    • By now, successive epidemics of smallpox and typhus - diseases unknown in Mexico prior to the arrival of the Europeans - were raging.
    • Diseases such as smallpox, typhus, and tuberculosis had dire consequences, and these consequences were intensifying on Britain's increasingly crowded streets.
    • Among the diseases resulting from poor sanitation, unclean water and poor waste disposal are dysentery, cholera, typhus fever, typhoid, schistosomiasis and trachoma.
    • Body lice are associated with severe systemic diseases such as typhus and trench fever.
    • Body lice may transmit typhus and trench fever.
    • The scenes from 19th century Edinburgh, with its multitude of epidemics of typhus, smallpox, plague, and other mysterious fevers, might still be seen in any part of the developing world.
    • Investigators who worked on cholera, typhus, yellow fever, and Rocky Mountain spotted fever sometimes died of the diseases they were working on.
    • To measles we can add smallpox, tuberculosis, malaria, typhus, typhoid, influenza and syphilis.
    • Civil War surgeons recognized only one typhus disease: epidemic typhus spread by lice infected with Rickettsia prowazekii was documented to occur in army camps.
    • Tito's government significantly raised the standard of health, eliminating diseases such as typhus, tuberculosis, and whooping cough.
    • Common scourges found in the desert include plague, typhus, malaria, dengue fever, dysentery, cholera, and typhoid.

Derivatives

  • typhous

  • adjective ˈtʌɪfəsˈtaɪfəs
    • Dilutions of 1: 250 are still bacteriostatic against pathogenic streptococci and staphylococci, typhous, pneumococcus.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This unwillingness was not removed until his disease, which was a typhous fever, had so far advanced that his medical attendants deemed it too late to expect benefit from medication.
      • Various forms of the disease are known as adynamic, intermittent and remittent, typhous, rheumatic and epidemic dysentery; but it is not necessary to classify the disease under these heads.

Origin

Mid 17th century: modern Latin, from Greek tuphos 'smoke, stupor', from tuphein 'to smoke'.

  • stew from Middle English:

    When stew entered the language it referred to a cauldron or large cooking pot, not to what was being cooked in it. The source was Old French estuve, probably based on Greek tuphos ‘smoke or steam’, which is also where the fevers typhus (late 18th century) and typhoid (early 19th century) come from, because they create the kind of stupor that is associated with smoke inhalation. The verb ‘to stew’ originally referred to bathing in a hot bath or steam bath. It was not long before the idea of heating people in a bath had changed to heating food in an oven, specifically cooking a dish of meat and vegetables by simmering it slowly in a closed vessel. Stifle (Late Middle English) probably comes from the same Old French root, and stove (Middle English), originally a ‘sweating room’ in a steam bath, may be related. See also seethe

Definition of typhus in US English:

typhus

nounˈtīfəsˈtaɪfəs
  • An infectious disease caused by rickettsiae, characterized by a purple rash, headaches, fever, and usually delirium, and historically a cause of high mortality during wars and famines. There are several forms, transmitted by vectors such as lice, ticks, mites, and rat fleas.

    斑疹伤寒。亦称SPOTTED FEVER

    Also called spotted fever
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Body lice are associated with severe systemic diseases such as typhus and trench fever.
    • Civil War surgeons recognized only one typhus disease: epidemic typhus spread by lice infected with Rickettsia prowazekii was documented to occur in army camps.
    • The people at this camp were usually killed by diseases like tuberculosis and typhus.
    • To measles we can add smallpox, tuberculosis, malaria, typhus, typhoid, influenza and syphilis.
    • Among the diseases resulting from poor sanitation, unclean water and poor waste disposal are dysentery, cholera, typhus fever, typhoid, schistosomiasis and trachoma.
    • Tito's government significantly raised the standard of health, eliminating diseases such as typhus, tuberculosis, and whooping cough.
    • The scenes from 19th century Edinburgh, with its multitude of epidemics of typhus, smallpox, plague, and other mysterious fevers, might still be seen in any part of the developing world.
    • Body lice may transmit typhus and trench fever.
    • Diseases such as smallpox, typhus, and tuberculosis had dire consequences, and these consequences were intensifying on Britain's increasingly crowded streets.
    • Investigators who worked on cholera, typhus, yellow fever, and Rocky Mountain spotted fever sometimes died of the diseases they were working on.
    • The concentration of so many men and camp followers promoted the outbreaks of cholera, diphtheria, dysentery, typhoid fever, typhus, bubonic plague - and venereal diseases.
    • The body louse, Pediculus humanus corporis, is a vector of epidemic typhus, trench fever, and relapsing fever.
    • The principal recorded killers were smallpox, influenza, measles, typhoid, typhus, chickenpox, whooping cough, tuberculosis and syphilis.
    • Rodents cost billions of dollars in lost crops each year, and some are carriers of human diseases such as bubonic plague, typhus, and Hanta fever.
    • In the 19th century, doctors prescribed whisky or brandy for all kinds of fevers, from influenza and pneumonia to malaria, typhus and cholera.
    • He joined the Royal Air Force as a medical officer and served in India, Burma, and Ceylon, where he encountered smallpox, plague, poliomyelitis, typhus, anthrax, malaria, and dysentery.
    • All the British personnel have been vaccinated against diseases including typhus and yellow fever before being sent to Afghanistan, and since mid-March have been taking anti-malaria tablets.
    • By now, successive epidemics of smallpox and typhus - diseases unknown in Mexico prior to the arrival of the Europeans - were raging.
    • Common scourges found in the desert include plague, typhus, malaria, dengue fever, dysentery, cholera, and typhoid.
    • The animals harbor the lice and fleas that spawn serious diseases such as typhus, trichinosis, and infectious jaundice.

Origin

Mid 17th century: modern Latin, from Greek tuphos ‘smoke, stupor’, from tuphein ‘to smoke’.

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