Malaria Definition

mə-lârē-ə
noun
Unwholesome or poisonous air, as from marshy ground; miasma.
Webster's New World
An infectious disease, generally intermittent and recurrent, caused by any of various protozoans (genus Plasmodium) that are parasitic in the red blood corpuscles and are transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected anopheles mosquito: it is characterized by severe chills and fever.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Malaria

  • Italian from mala aria bad air (from the belief that malaria was caused by vapors emanating from swamps, rather than mosquitos that bred there) mala feminine of malo bad (from Latin malus mel-3 in Indo-European roots) aria air aria

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Italian mala aria meaning "bad air".

    From Wiktionary

Malaria Sentence Examples

  • Malaria increased in strength as the population diminished.

  • The climate is hot and malaria is prevalent.

  • The mortality from malaria in 1902 was higher than for any other part of Italy-1037 persons, or 154 per 100,000 (Basilicata, 141; Apulia, 104; Calabria, 77; Sicily, 76; province of Rome, 27).

  • It is subject, however, to extreme and rapid variations in temperature, to alternations of dry and humid winds (the latter, called catias, being irritating and oppressive), to chilling night mists brought up from the coast by the westerly winds, and to other influences productive of malaria, catarrh, fevers, bilious disorders and rheumatism.

  • Sir Patrick Manson has suggested that the problem of stamping out malaria may be assisted by the discovery of some at present unknown factors.

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