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TYPHOID SPINE

\tˈa͡ɪfɔ͡ɪd spˈa͡ɪn], \tˈa‍ɪfɔ‍ɪd spˈa‍ɪn], \t_ˈaɪ_f_ɔɪ_d s_p_ˈaɪ_n]\

Definitions of TYPHOID SPINE

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary

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a painful state of the vertebral region after typhoid fever.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

An acute arthritis and periarthritis due to infection with the Bacillus typhosus, following or in the course of typhoid fever and causing spinal anchylosis. [Lat.]

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe

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