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[muh-lair-ee-uh]

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noun

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.

Archaic. unwholesome or poisonous air.

Origin:
1730–40; < Italian, contraction of mala aria bad air

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ma·lar·i·al, ma·lar·i·an, ma·lar·i·ous, adjective

non·ma·lar·i·al, adjective

non·ma·lar·i·an, adjective

non·ma·lar·i·ous, adjective

post·ma·lar·i·al, adjective

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pseu·do·ma·lar·i·a, noun

un·ma·lar·i·al, adjective

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There has been enormous progress over the past three years in distributing the means to prevent and treat malaria.

Anyone having malaria is quarantined and treated before he is allowed to mix with the community.

Malaria has been known about since ancient times and has gone under many names.

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There has been enormous progress over the past three years in distributing the means to prevent and treat malaria.

Anyone having malaria is quarantined and treated before he is allowed to mix with the community.

Malaria has been known about since ancient times and has gone under many names.

Doctors estimate more than a million people die of malaria each year.

More than a million people every year die from malaria.

They were weakened by hunger, crippled by festering sores, incapacitated by malaria and dysentery.

Researchers are teaching malaria drugs new tricks in the struggle to come up with non-resistant antibiotics.

Malaria is a disease caused by parasites that are carried by mosquitoes.

Malaria is caused by parasites that are transmitted by mosquitoes.

Insecticide-treated bed nets may be low-tech, but they are a highly effective way to prevent the spread of malaria.

Fighting malaria will require more innovative defenses.

Mosquitoes cause half a billion malaria infections that kill a million people annually.

Dengue is carried by mosquitoes and is the scourge of urban areas in the developing world, much as malaria is in rural regions.

Kaiser, an epidemiologist who helped change the direction of malaria control around the world, died today at his home here.

The death toll from malaria seems to have responded to a big injection of money.

Malaria has always afflicted us, they say, and always will.

The government deliberately kept the forest there infected with malaria.

Eradicating malaria in the developing world is also an information and knowledge management problem.

The complete genomes of both the parasite that causes malaria and the mosquito that carries it have now been unravelled.

Malaria effectively saps the vitality of entire regions.

Malaria kills approximately one million people each year.

Cholera and malaria continue to kill, mostly the children.

But malaria doesn't know economics, gender, or race.

Spending money on eradicating malaria definitely seems to be helping.

Nearly half a billion people get malaria worldwide each year.

The diagnosis of malaria was the first test because it demands a high-quality image.

Efforts to reduce deaths from malaria are also starting to deliver impressive results.

The chief limiting factor on the transmission of malaria by mosquitoes is temperature, according.

The novel approach, as well as a vaccine made from live parasites, offers new hope in the battle against malaria.

The parasite that causes the deadliest form of malaria is showing the first signs of resistance to the best new drug against.

As shown by the chart, as spending increases, the occurence of malaria decreases proportionately.

Mosquitoes behind malaria follow carbon dioxide exhalations until they're close enough to sniff out our feet, a strategy that.

More on the intersection of climate change and malaria risk.

From satellites to bacteria, researchers are searching high and low for the best tools to eradicate malaria.

Earlier conflicts spurred discoveries to prevent malaria and typhoid, a.

Researchers believe they have figured out why a genetic blood disorder found in the tropics protects against death from malaria.

If transgenic mosquitoes immune to malaria could outcompete and replace regular mosquitoes, they could help keep people.

In some villages, customers have had enough money to buy mosquito nets, an effective way to prevent malaria.

Hewlett-Packard is testing a number of health-related mobile products to help deter heart disease and monitor malaria outbreaks.

The same paper made a similarly compelling case for more to be spent on the control and treatment of malaria.

Malaria is found mainly in parts of the world that are tropical and humid.

Wild birds have caught the canary pox virus, and penguins have been stricken by avian malaria.

Malaria is common in these areas because the mosquitoes that carry and transmit the disease.

In pursuit of an iPhone-size tool to monitor cancer and diagnose malaria.

Deaths in childbirth and from malaria are down sharply, she added.

Mayby it is a time for changing step by step out politics base on the making profit from selling condoms and malaria vaccines.

Insecticide-treated bed nets may be low-tech, but they're a highly effective way to prevent the spread of malaria.

Malaria protozoans take over a person's red blood cells.

Leeches, snakes, and malaria were always on my mind.

Higher temperatures may also result in the spread of tropical diseases such as malaria into more temperate climes.

Recent research may have found a possible path to killing a parasite that is similar to the one that causes malaria.

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World English Dictionary

malaria (məˈlɛərɪə)

—n
	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)

[C18: from Italian mala aria bad air, from the belief that the disease was caused by the unwholesome air in swampy districts]

ma'larial

—*adj*

ma'larian

—*adj*

ma'larious

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

malaria

1740, from It. mal'aria, from mala aria, lit. "bad air," from mala "bad" (fem. of malo, from L. malus) + aria "air." Probably first used by It. physician Francisco Torti (1658-1741). The mosquito-borne disease was once thought to have been caused by foul air in marshy districts. Replaced native ague.

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Medical Dictionary

malaria ma·lar·i·a (mə-lâr'ē-ə)
n.
An infectious disease characterized by cycles of chills, fever, and sweating, caused by the parasitic infection of red blood cells by a protozoan of the genus Plasmodium, which is transmitted by the bite of an infected female anopheles mosquito. Also called jungle fever, paludism, swamp fever.

ma·lar'i·al or ma·lar'i·an or ma·lar'i·ous adj.

American Heritage

Science Dictionary

malaria

(mə-lâr'ē-ə) Pronunciation Key
An infectious disease of tropical areas caused by the parasitic infection of red blood cells by a protozoan of the genus Plasmodium, which is transmitted by the bite of an infected female mosquito. Malaria is characterized by recurrent episodes of chills, fever, sweating, and anemia and is endemic in Africa, Central America, and much of Southern Asia and northern South America.

American Heritage

Cultural Dictionary

malaria [(muh-lair-ee-uh)]

An infectious disease caused by a parasite that is transmitted by the bite of an infected mosquito. Persons suffering from malaria experience periodic episodes of chills and fever.

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