ALL meanings of malaria
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M m - noun malaria infectious disease 1
- noun malaria Pathology. any of a group of diseases, usually intermittent or remittent, characterized by attacks of chills, fever, and sweating: formerly supposed to be due to swamp exhalations but now known to be caused by a parasitic protozoan, which is transferred to the human bloodstream by a mosquito of the genus Anopheles and which occupies and destroys red blood cells. 1
- noun malaria Archaic. unwholesome or poisonous air. 1
- noun malaria An intermittent and remittent fever caused by a protozoan parasite that invades the red blood cells. The parasite is transmitted by mosquitoes in many tropical and subtropical regions. 1
- uncountable noun malaria Malaria is a serious disease carried by mosquitoes which causes periods of fever. 0
- noun malaria an infectious disease characterized by recurring attacks of chills and fever, caused by the bite of an anopheles mosquito infected with any of four protozoans of the genus Plasmodium (P. vivax, P. falciparum, P. malariae, or P. ovale) 0
- noun malaria unwholesome or poisonous air, as from marshy ground; miasma 0
- noun malaria 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 0