Malaria
[mə'leərɪə] or [mə'lɛrɪə]
Definition
(noun.) an infective disease caused by sporozoan parasites that are transmitted through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito; marked by paroxysms of chills and fever.
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Definition
(n.) Air infected with some noxious substance capable of engendering disease; esp., an unhealthy exhalation from certain soils, as marshy or wet lands, producing fevers; miasma.
(n.) A morbid condition produced by exhalations from decaying vegetable matter in contact with moisture, giving rise to fever and ague and many other symptoms characterized by their tendency to recur at definite and usually uniform intervals.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Miasma, miasm, noxious exhalation, bad air.
Typist: Waldo
Definition
n. the poisonous air arising from marshy districts producing fever &c.: miasma: the fever so caused.—adjs. Malā′rious Malā′rial Malā′rian.
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Examples
- There is always malaria for some people. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The illustrations represented in Fig. 177 show the parasites that cause malaria, or fever and ague. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I had been a fool to remain in Rome all this time: Rome noted for Malaria, the famous caterer for death. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I also had a headache when I awoke, said Maurice, after a pause; so, as we have all felt the same thing, there must be some malaria in the air. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Miasma, perhaps--malaria. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But the Germans could never hold Italy permanently, because they could not stand the malaria that the ruined, neglected, undrained country fostered. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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