Describing a type of lung infection or disease that resembles or is associated with typhoid fever but primarily affects the bronchi and lungs.
From 'bronchos' (windpipe) + 'typhoid' (resembling typhus). This 19th-century medical term combined respiratory anatomy with the name of a serious fever disease to describe a specific presentation of bronchial infection.
Medical doctors love using '-oid' to mean 'resembling' (like 'humanoid' means human-like). So 'bronchotyphoid' means a bronchial infection that looks or acts like typhoid fever—it's medical shorthand for 'this breathing disease looks suspiciously like that famous fever disease.'
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