I. |parə+ adjective
Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary para- (I) + typhoid
1. : resembling typhoid fever
2. : of, relating to, or involving paratyphoid or its causative organisms
paratyphoid infection
II. noun
also paratyphoid fever
: any of a great variety of infectious enteric diseases of man and animals more or less resembling typhoid fever and commonly contracted by eating food contaminated with bacteria of the genus Salmonella ; specifically : necrotic enteritis — compare salmonellosis