Definition of "paratyphoid" [paratyphoid]

• Resembling typhoid. (adjective)
• Paratyphoid fever (noun)

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• "I remember one occasion, when I had something called paratyphoid — it wasn't typhoid but I had to rest for many, many weeks — mother would read entire sets."
• "Typhoid, and what was described as paratyphoid, fevers followed these maladies."
• "Several intestinal diseases such as paratyphoid and paradysentery are transmitted by flies whilst a series of facts also point to the possibility that infantile paralysis is thus transmitted."