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paratyphoid fever

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.27 in modern English

Syllables
paraty-phoid fever
IPA
33
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
2
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

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.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From para- + typhoid fever.

Usage

Inflected Forms

paratyphoid fevers (plural)

Phrases

enteric fever necrotic enteritis

Frequently Paired Words

enteric fever necrotic enteritis

Synonyms

paratyphoid

Questions

What does paratyphoid fever mean?
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.
Where does paratyphoid fever come from?
From para- + typhoid fever.

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