pneumotyphusn.
/ˌnjuːmə(ʊ)ˈtʌɪfəs/, U.S. /ˌn(j)umoʊˈtaɪfəs/ Medicine. Now historical.
Typhoid or typhus fever complicated by pneumonia; (also) a disease resembling this, spec. psittacosis.
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pneumotyphus1846
pneumonomycosis1875
pneumomycosis1890
psittacosis1896
aspergillosis1898
histoplasmosis1907
nocardiosis1907
parrot disease1908
torulosis1929
coccidioidomycosis1937
valley fever1938
ornithosis1939
farmer's lung1944
parrot fever1947
San Joaquin Valley fever1958
1846 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 6) 594/2 Pneumotyphus, pneumonia, typhoid.
1850 C. J. Hempel tr. G. H. G. Jahr Clin. Guide 333 Pneumonia may assume a typhoid character in consequence of excessive bleeding, but this would not be true pneumo-typhus.
1869 C. J. Hempel tr. B. Bæhr Sci. Therapeutics II. 283 In pneumotyphus Rhus ranks next to Phosphorus to which it may even be regarded as superior.
1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. II Pneumotyphus, typhoid fever with croupous pneumonia.
1943 K. F. Meyer in H. E. Biester Dis. Poultry xxii. 433 Ritter..described in 1879 an illness..as ‘pneumotyphus’ which he attributed to a consignment of tropical birds.
1985 Rev. Infectious Dis. 7 119/1 Although Ritter labelled the disease pneumotyphus (after vacillating between the following choices for diagnosis: typhus, typhoid, and ‘pneumonia’), his article not only provides an interesting epidemiologic study of infection with Chlamydia psittaci, but also a well-documented account of the natural history of psittacosis.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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