Type"writ`ing, n. The act or art of using a typewriter; also, a print
made with a typewriter.
||Typh*li"tis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; blind, closed (as applied to
||the cæcum) + -itis.] (Med.) Inflammation of the cæcum.
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Typh"lo*sole (?), n. [Gr. &?; blind + &?; channel.] (Zoöl.) A fold of
the wall which projects into the cavity of the intestine in bivalve
mollusks, certain annelids, starfishes, and some other animals.
Ty*pho"ë*an (?), a. [L. Typhoius, from Typhoeus, Gr. &?;, &?;.] Of or
pertaining to Typhoeus (t*f"s), the fabled giant of Greek mythology,
having a hundred heads; resembling Typhoeus.
Sometimes incorrectly written and pronounced Ty- phœ\'b6an (&?;), or
Ty-phe\'b6 an.
Ty"phoid (?), a. [Typhus + - oid: cf. F. typhoïde, Gr. &?;. See
Typhus.] (Med.) Of or pertaining to typhus; resembling typhus; of a low
grade like typhus; as, typhoid symptoms.
Typhoid fever, a disease formerly confounded with typhus, but
essentially different from the latter. It is characterized by fever,
lasting usually three or more weeks, diarrhæa with evacuations
resembling pea soup in appearance, and prostration and muscular
debility, gradually increasing and often becoming profound at the acme
of the disease. Its local lesions are a scanty eruption of spots,
resembling flea bites, on the belly, enlargement of the spleen, and
ulceration of the intestines over the areas occupied by Peyer's glands.
The virus, or contagion, of this fever is supposed to be a microscopic
vegetable organism, or bacterium. Called also enteric fever. See
Peyer's glands. — Typhoid state, a condition common to many diseases,
characterized by profound prostration and other symptoms resembling
those of typhus.
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Ty`pho*ma*la"ri*al (?), a. (Med.) Pertaining to typhoid fever and
malaria; as, typhomalarial fever, a form of fever having symptoms both
of malarial and typhoid fever.
Ty`pho*ma"ni*a (?), n. [NL. See Typhus, and Mania.] (Med.) A low
delirium common in typhus fever.
Ty"phon (?), n. [Gr. &?;, and &?;. See Typhoon.] (Class. Mythol.) 1.
According to Hesiod, the son of Typhoeus, and father of the winds, but
later identified with him.
By modern writers, Typhon is identified with the Egyptian Set, who
represents physical evil. Encyc. Brit.