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Malaria Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Malaria? [n] 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 Synonyms \| Synonyms for Malaria: Related Terms \| Find terms related to Malaria: acute articular rheumatism \| African lethargy \| afterdamp \| ague \| alkali disease \| amebiasis \| amebic dysentery \| anthrax \| Asiatic cholera \| bacillary dysentery \| bastard measles \| black death \| black fever \| blackdamp \| blackwater fever \| breakbone fever \| breath \| brucellosis \| bubonic plague \| cachectic fever \| cerebral rheumatism \| Chagres fever \| chicken pox \| chokedamp \| cholera \| cloud \| coal gas \| cowpox \| damp \| dandy fever \| deer fly fever \| dengue \| dengue fever \| diphtheria \| dumdum fever \| dysentery \| effluvium \| elephantiasis \| encephalitis lethargica \| enteric fever \| erysipelas \| exhalation \| exhaust \| exhaust gas \| famine fever \| fetid air \| firedamp \| five-day fever \| flatus \| flu \| fluid \| frambesia \| fume \| German measles \| glandular fever \| grippe \| hansenosis \| Haverhill fever \| hepatitis \| herpes \| herpes simplex \| herpes zoster \| histoplasmosis \| hookworm \| hydrophobia \| infantile paralysis \| infectious mononucleosis \| inflammatory rheumatism \| influenza \| jail fever \| jungle rot \| kala azar \| kissing disease \| lepra \| leprosy \| leptospirosis \| loa loa \| loaiasis \| lockjaw \| madness \| malarial fever \| marsh fever \| measles \| meningitis \| mephitis \| miasma \| milzbrand \| mumps \| ornithosis \| osteomyelitis \| paratyphoid fever \| parotitis \| parrot fever \| pertussis \| pneumonia \| polio \| poliomyelitis \| polyarthritis rheumatism \| ponos \| psittacosis \| puff of smoke \| rabbit fever \| rabies \| rat-bite fever \| reek \| relapsing fever \| rheumatic fever \| rickettsialpox \| ringworm \| rubella \| rubeola \| scarlatina \| scarlet fever \| schistosomiasis \| septic sore throat \| shingles \| sleeping sickness \| sleepy sickness \| smallpox \| smoke \| smudge \| snail fever \| splenic fever \| spotted fever \| steam \| strep throat \| swamp fever \| tetanus \| thrush \| tinea \| trench fever \| trench mouth \| tuberculosis \| tularemia \| typhoid \| typhoid fever \| typhus \| typhus fever \| undulant fever \| vaccinia \| vapor \| varicella \| variola \| venereal disease \| viral dysentery \| volatile \| water vapor \| whooping cough \| yaws \| yellow fever \| yellow jack \| zona \| zoster See Also \| ague \| blackwater fever \| chills and fever \| jungle fever \| protozoal infection Malaria In Webster's Dictionary \Mala"ria\, n. [It., contr. fr. malaaria bad air. See {Malice}, and Air.] 1. 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. Note: The morbific agent in malaria is supposed by some to be a vegetable microbe or its spores, and by others to be a very minute animal blood parasite (an infusorian). 2. (Med.) 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.

Malaria Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Malaria?

[n] 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

Synonyms | Synonyms for Malaria:

Malaria In Webster's Dictionary

\Ma*la"ri*a\, n. [It., contr. fr. malaaria bad air. See
{Malice}, and Air.]
1. 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.

Note: The morbific agent in malaria is supposed by some to be
      a vegetable microbe or its spores, and by others to be
      a very minute animal blood parasite (an infusorian).

2. (Med.) 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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