paratyphoid
- n any of a variety of infectious intestinal diseases resembling typhoid fever
- Zoo officials sent Knorke to the City Hospital, put the sad little ape in quarantine in a sealed-off room, and explained that paratyphoid, though usually only a mild human disorder .
- Almost blind, rather deaf, lanky, square-jawed Cardinal Hinsley was never well since he had a bout with paratyphoid in Africa a decade ago.
- She tried typhoid-paratyphoid serum on another.