paratyphoid fever

Other forms: paratyphoid fevers

Definitions of paratyphoid fever
  1. noun
    any of a variety of infectious intestinal diseases resembling typhoid fever
    synonyms: paratyphoid
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    type of:
    infectious disease
    a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact
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