1. Resembling or characteristic of typhus; applied to a class of febrile diseases exhibiting symptoms similar to those of typhus, or to such symptoms themselves, especially to a state of delirious stupor occurring in certain fevers.
2. Typhoid fever: a specific eruptive fever (formerly supposed to be a variety of typhus), characterized by intestinal inflammation and ulceration; more distinctively, and now more usually, called enteric fever.
3. Typhoid Mary, nickname of Mary Mallon (d. 1938), an Irish-born cook who transmitted typhoid fever in the U.S.A. Also figuratively, a transmitter of undesirable opinions, sentiments, etc.

See information about Typhoid Mary who was unaware of harm she was doing to others.

An ailment that develops and affects the blood as the result of exposure to or contact with sewage or other waste: Shirley contracted typhosepsis when she was traveling in an area where there was poor sewage control or treatment.

Someone told her that the ailment of typhosepsis is also known as typhoid septicemia.