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malaria

malarianoun

malarias

Translations

Malaria is a disease caused by a parasite.

Малярия - это заболевание, вызванное паразитом.

Definitions

A disease caused by a plasmodium parasite, transmitted by the bite of infected mosquitoes.

The doctor diagnosed the patient with malaria after he returned from his trip to the tropics.

(archaic) Bad or unwholesome air; miasma once believed to cause disease.

Nineteenth-century travelers feared the malaria rising from the swamps at sunset.

Synonyms

malarial fever

marsh fever

paludal fever

intermittent fever

plasmodial infection

Plasmodium infection