Malaria

Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) 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.

Compare malaria with other words:

malaria vs. talaria

malaria vs. miliaria

filaria vs. malaria

malaria vs. typhomalarial

malaria vs. malarious

malaria vs. quartan

malaria vs. malarian

cinchona vs. malaria

malaria vs. quinine

malaria vs. paludism

antimalarial vs. malaria

malaria vs. malarial

ague vs. malaria

blood vs. malaria

malaria vs. plasmodium

malaria vs. protozoan

malaria vs. mosquito

malaria vs. yellow

malaria vs. west

dengue vs. malaria

flu vs. malaria