ad. Gr. τῡφο-, combining form of τῦφος (see TYPHUS): used as combining form of TYPHUS or TYPHOID, in recent terms of pathology, etc. Typho-adynamic a. [ADYNAMIC], characterized by prostration as in typhus or typhoid fever. Typhogenic a. [see -GEN and -IC], producing typhus or typhoid fever. Typholysin, a lysin which destroys the bacilli of typhoid fever. Typhomalarial a., applied to a fever exhibiting both typhoid and malarial symptoms, or to typhoid fever with malarial complications or of supposed malarial origin. Typhopneumonia, pneumonia complicated with typhoid fever, or exhibiting typhoid symptoms. Typhotoxin [see TOXIN], a poisonous ptomaine obtained from cultures of the bacillus of typhoid fever.
1898. P. Manson, Trop. Diseases, ii. 66. The fever may assume the *typho-adynamic type.
1900–13. Dorland, Med. Dict., *Typhogenic.
1902. Brit. Med. Jrnl., 12 April, 920. *Typholysin, the lysin of cholera [etc.].
1884. Lisbon (Dakota) Star, 29 Aug. A severe attack of *typho-malarial fever.
1898. P. Manson, Trop. Diseases, vi. 109. These cases are typho-malarial,… typhoid with a malarial complication.
1878. A. M. Hamilton, Nerv. Dis., 62. Typhoid, in some of its forms, or *typho-pneumonia, may resemble tubercular meningitis.
1890. Billings, Med. Dict., *Typhotoxine, C7H17NO2.
1901. W. Osler, Princ. & Pract. Med., i. (ed. 4), 8. Brieger isolated from cultures [of typhoid bacilli] a poison belonging to the group of ptomaines—typhotoxin.
