a. Path. [f. TYPH-US + -OUS.] Pertaining to or having the character of typhus.
1805. Med. Jrnl., XIV. 341. The district … has been … more free from typhous fever, than the more distant parts of the metropolis.
1822–9. Good, Study Med. (ed. 3), II. 91. Prisoners confined in jails with typhous miasm around them.
1844. Babington, trans. Hecker’s Epidemics Mid. Ages, 237. Such opposite states are usual in all typhous fevers.
1857. Dunglison, Med. Lex., Typhous Deposit, a peculiar substance of new formation found in the areolar membrane … of the patches of Peyer in typhoid fever.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., II. 364. The renal secretion … is … dark-coloured from typhous dissolution of the blood.
