typhus

• n. [内科] 斑疹伤寒症

来自拉丁语 typhus,斑疹伤寒，来自希腊语 tuphos,发热，昏迷，恍惚，来自 typhein,冒烟，来

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typhus (n.)

acute infectious fever, usually accompanied by prostration, delirium, and small reddish spots, 1785, from medical Latin, from Greek typhos "stupor caused by fever," literally "smoke," from typhein "to smoke," related to typhos "blind," typhon "whirlwind," from PIE *dheubh-, perhaps an extended form of root *dheu- (1) "to fly about like dust."

The Greek term [typhos] (smoke, mist, fog) was employed by Hippocrates to define a confused state of the intellect, with a tendency to stupor (stupor attonitus); and in this sense it is aptly applied to typhus fever with its slow cerebration and drowsy stupor. Boissier de Sauvages first (in 1760) called this fever "typhus," and the name was adopted by Cullen of Edinburgh in 1769. Previous to the time of de Sauvages typhus was known as "Pestilential" or "Putrid Fever," or by some name suggested by the eruption, or expressive of the locality in which it appeared, as "Camp," "Jail," "Hospital," or "Ship Fever" (Murchison). [Thomas Clifford, ed., "A System of Medicine," New York, 1897]

Related: typhous (adj.).

1. The hospital ward was fumigated after the outbreak of typhus.

发现斑疹伤寒以后,医院的病房进行了烟熏消毒.

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2. A typhus epidemic struck in the winter of 1919–20.

1919至1920年的冬天斑疹伤寒症流行.

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3. Zosia had caught typhus from one of the students and had gone away for ever.

卓希雅从一个学生那里传染上了伤寒,永远地离开了人世.

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4. The hospital wards were fumigated after the outbreak of typhus.

发现斑疹伤寒以后,医院的病房进行了烟熏消毒.

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5. And how do doctors prevent the spread of typhus?

那么医生是如何防止斑疹伤寒的扩散与传播的 呢 ?

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