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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
any of a variety of infectious intestinal diseases resembling typhoid fever
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: paratyphoid
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: infectious disease
History
From para- + typhoid fever.
Across languages
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
