paratyphoid fever

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   any of a variety of infectious intestinal diseases resembling typhoid fever

   Synonymsparatyphoid

   Broaderinfectious disease

Questions about paratyphoid fever

What does paratyphoid fever mean?

paratyphoid fever means "any of a variety of infectious intestinal diseases resembling typhoid fever".

What is another word for paratyphoid fever?

Close synonyms include paratyphoid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is paratyphoid fever a common word?

paratyphoid fever is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.