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Paratyphoid fever
noun
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Any of a variety of acute infectious intestinal diseases resembling typhoid fever but less severe, caused by eating food contaminated with certain bacteria of the genus Salmonella. countable, uncountable
- 2 any of a variety of infectious intestinal diseases resembling typhoid fever wordnet
Etymology
From para- + typhoid fever.
See also for "paratyphoid fever"
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