a. [f. prec. + -AL.] Pertaining to or characteristic of typhoid fever; resembling or having the character of typhoid fever.
1841. Manchester Times, 2 Oct., 2/5. Mr. Gibson then explained, that he had not spoken of virulent typhus fever, but of typhoidal cases, arising from insufficiency of food.
1882. St. James’s Gaz., 15 Nov., 6. The milk-pail reeks with fever germs, The pump with seeds typhoidal.
1890. in N. Y. Voice, 17 April. Miasmatic and typhoidal conditions.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VIII. 467. The fever … may be … ephemeral, remittent,… continuous, typhoidal, according to the circumstances.
