チフス

also: チブス · チプス

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Common wordFreq.FrequencyTop 100,000

Meanings

typhoid; paratyphoid

usually written using kana alonemedicine

Refers to typhoid and paratyphoid fevers. Often used in compounds like 腸チフス (typhoid fever) and パラチフス (paratyphoid fever).

from German Typhus

typhus

usually written using kana alonemedicine

Refers to typhus fever, a different disease from typhoid. Commonly specified as 発疹チフス to distinguish it from typhoid.

〈人ひと〉がチフスにかかるfor someone to catch typhoid/typhus
彼かれは旅りょ行こう中ちゅうにチフスにかかった。
He caught typhoid while traveling.
チフスの予よ防ぼう接せっ種しゅを受うけるto get vaccinated against typhoid
海かい外がいに行いく前まえにチフスの予よ防ぼう接せっ種しゅを受うけた。
I got a typhoid vaccination before going abroad.
チフスが流りゅう行こうするfor typhoid/typhus to become epidemic
戦せん後ご、この地ち域いきでチフスが流りゅう行こうした。
Typhoid became epidemic in this region after the war.

腸ちょうチフス sense 1
チフス alone can loosely refer to typhoid or typhus, while 腸チフス specifically names typhoid fever and is the term doctors use to avoid ambiguity.
パラチフス sense 1
パラチフス names paratyphoid fever specifically, a related but usually milder illness than the typhoid meaning covered by チフス.
発ほっ疹しんチフス sense 2
発疹チフス specifically means typhus (a louse-borne rickettsial disease), distinct from the typhoid sense that チフス can also carry.

チフスUsage94%
Standard modern spelling; the word is usually written in katakana.
チブスUsage5%
out-dated reading
Obsolete kana variant; not used in modern Japanese.
窒扶斯Usage1%
ateji (phonetic kanji usage)rarely-used kanji form
- チフス
  Ateji spelling; rarely used. Included for recognition of historical texts.
- チブス
  out-dated reading
- チプス
  out-dated reading
チプス
out-dated reading
Obsolete kana variant; not used in modern Japanese.

Borrowed from German 'Typhus'. The ateji spelling 窒扶斯 is a phonetic rendering.