typhus fever

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   rickettsial disease transmitted by body lice and characterized by skin rash and high fever

   Synonymstyphus

   Broaderrickettsial disease

   Narrowermurine typhus

Questions about typhus fever

What does typhus fever mean?

typhus fever means "rickettsial disease transmitted by body lice and characterized by skin rash and high fever".

What is another word for typhus fever?

Close synonyms include typhus. 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 typhus fever a common word?

typhus 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.