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Definition of typhus noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

typhus

noun
 
/ˈtaɪfəs/
 
/ˈtaɪfəs/
[uncountable]
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  1. a serious disease that causes a high temperature, headaches, purple marks on the body and often deathTopics Health problemsc2
    Word Originmid 17th cent.: modern Latin, from Greek tuphos ‘smoke, stupor’, from tuphein ‘to smoke’.
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