Typhoid
31Typhoid Mary — a carrier or transmitter of anything undesirable, harmful, or catastrophic. [after Mary Mallon (d. 1938), Irish born cook in the U.S., who was found to be a typhoid carrier] * * * byname of Mary Mallon born 1870? died Nov. 11, 1938, North Brother …
32Typhoid fever — An acute illness with fever caused by infection with the Salmonella Typhi bacteria contracted from contaminated water and food. The disease has an insidious onset characterized by fever, headache, constipation, malaise, chills, and myalgia… …
33Typhoid Mary — Unter „Typhoid Mary“ kann Folgendes verstanden werden: Übername (daher das Setzen in Anführungs und Schlusszeichen) der selbst immunen Typhusüberträgerin Mary Mallon. Der Terminus „Typhoid Mary“ hat inzwischen – ausgehend vom historischen Fall –… …
34Typhoid Mary — Someone who by force of circumstances serves as the source from which something undesirable spreads. Typhoid Mary was a cook named Mary Mallon who had immigrated from Ireland and was living in New York City in the early 1900s. She had been… …
35Typhoid Mary — noun United States cook who was an immune carrier of typhoid fever and who infected dozens of people (1870 1938) • Syn: ↑Mallon, ↑Mary Mallon • Instance Hypernyms: ↑carrier, ↑immune carrier * * * Typhoid Mary [Typhoid Mary] …
36Typhoid Mary — noun (plural Typhoid Marys) Etymology: Typhoid Mary, nickname of Mary Mallon died 1938 Irish cook in United States who was found to be a typhoid carrier Date: 1931 one that is by force of circumstances a center from which something undesirable… …
37Typhoid Mary — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms Typhoid Mary : singular Typhoid Mary plural Typhoid Marys an insulting word for someone who you avoid because they spread something unpleasant or harmful to the people around them • Etymology: From an Irish… …
38typhoid bacillus — noun a form of salmonella that causes typhoid fever • Syn: ↑Salmonella typhosa, ↑Salmonella typhi • Hypernyms: ↑salmonella * * * the bacterium Salmonella typhosa, causing typhoid fever. [1895 1900] * * * typhoid bacillus, a bacillus that causes… …
39Typhoid Mary — Mary Mallon Mary Mallone, illustration d un journal de 1909 Mary Mallon (née le 23 septembre 1869, morte le 11 novembre 1938), également connue sous le nom de Mary Typhoïde (Typhoid Mary), fut la première personne aux États Unis identifiée comme… …
40typhoid pneumonia — pneumonia with typhoid symptoms or accompanying typhoid fever; children may develop bronchopneumonia and adults may develop lobar pneumonia, with suppuration and empyema …
