Paratyphoid fever

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    any of a variety of infectious intestinal diseases resembling typhoid fever wordnet

Etymology

From para- + typhoid fever.

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